Mark Boy Harris London/Kuala Lumpur, United Kingdom Artist

Mark Boy Harris

Mark Harris was born in England, but grew up in Australia and Papua New Guinea from the age of three to thirteen. His was a blissfully happy childhood spent daydreaming, chasing rare and endangered wildlife, which he kept in his bedroom, and drawing pictures of rabbits in the bottom left corner of large sheets of paper. His parents very sensibly kept their distance from this strange and wayward boy, entrusting his education to a pack of dingoes and the Australian school system, where he learned to play rugby, count to ten and hurl a tennis ball the length of a football field. A great fondness for sports and outdoor adventure was matched by an equally enthusiastic propensity for catching near-fatal diseases, which has since become a lifelong hobby. On his return to England a reversal of fortunes in the family’s finances forced the young Harris to abandon his ambition of becoming a Mini Cooper and continue with his formal education. A succession of violent and misanthropic pedagogical failures persuaded him that his only escape from the violence and misanthropy of pedagogical failure was to be found in the art room where his talents were nurtured by yet more savage but well meaning miscreants who managed to convince him of the utter folly of pursuing a career in art. Having decided that art was indeed best left to recovering psychotics and former prime ministers, Mark Harris plunged into the world of languages and linguistics with all the enthusiasm of a Methodist dance instructor. Armed with a degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a pile of crumpled bank notes, he began to travel to exotic parts in search of voiceless fricative trills and voiced retroflex stops found only in those languages that cause permanent brain damage. Upon arriving in Malaysia Mark Harris quickly abandoned a career in teaching for his revived interest in drawing and painting after watching Peter Greenaway’s A Draughtsman’s Contract several dozen times. Once in Southeast Asia the sharp contrasts of light and dark, the intense heat of reflected sunlight on scabrous stone and brick and the joy of drawing in plein air while soaked with sweat became as addictive as kissing Audrey Hepburn.

Education:

BA in linguistics from SOAS, University of London.

MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School.

Trained in storyboarding with Temple Clark - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164547/ 

 STRANGLER FIG, ANGKOR WAT - PAYNE'S GREY
Painting, 16 H x 20 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

Nude 001
Drawing, 20 H x 16 W x 0 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 STRANGE FACE 002
New Media, 15.3 H x 14.5 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

Nude 002
Painting, 12 H x 12 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

MOTHER AND CHILD
Painting, 23.6 H x 18.7 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

PAYNE'S GREY NUDE 002
Painting, 12 H x 9 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 STRANGE FACE
New Media, 25 H x 23 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude 005
Painting, 12 H x 9 W x 0 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 ODALISQUE
Painting, 31.5 H x 39.5 W x 1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude 006
Painting, 16 H x 12 W x 0 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 STADTHUIS STEPS, MELAKA
Drawing, 32 H x 32 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude 007
Painting, 12 H x 12 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 RHINO
Drawing, 32 H x 32 W x 1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude 008
Painting, 16 H x 12 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

Angkor Wat Doorway and Window
Drawing, 16.1 H x 20.1 W x 0.4 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude - Acrylic 008
Painting, 12 H x 10 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

Doorway And Tree, Angkor Wat
Drawing, 20 H x 16 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude - Acrylic 009
Painting, 12 H x 12 W x 1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

ANGKOR DOORWAY
Painting, 12 H x 9 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Nude 009
Painting, 16 H x 12 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 WINDOW, PHUKET
Painting, 12 H x 16 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

SEATED NUDE LOOKING LEFT
Painting, 23.3 H x 17.5 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

PULAU DAYANG
Painting, 20.9 H x 15.7 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 NUDE BACK 001
Painting, 18.7 H x 13.7 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 COLUMNS GREECE
Painting, 15.8 H x 11.9 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

SEATED NUDE LOOKING DOWNWARDS
Painting, 23.5 H x 16.5 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

SHOPHOUSE, KUALA LUMPUR
Painting, 23.1 H x 14.9 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 JAPANESE NUDE WITH HAIR UP
Painting, 22.8 H x 17 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

CHINESE TEA CHESTS
Painting, 19.6 H x 15.4 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

DAISIES
Painting, 24.1 H x 23.5 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

RHINOCEROS BLACK AND WHITE
Drawing, 23 H x 23 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

ARCHWAY ANGKOR WAT
Drawing, 23.5 H x 16.6 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

KHMER TEMPLE, PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA
Drawing, 23.6 H x 16.7 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

PRASAT HIN PHANOM RUNG, THAILAND
Drawing, 23 H x 17.3 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 SHOPHOUSE IN PAYNE'S GREY
Painting, 36 H x 36 W x 0.8 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 OLD PORTUGUESE FORT, BANDA ISLANDS
Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.8 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 OUTRIGGER CANOE, INDONESIA
Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.8 W x 0.1 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 HAJI ALI MOSQUE, MUMBAI
Painting, 16 H x 20 W x 0.5 in
Mark Boy Harris
United Kingdom

 Mark Boy Harris  London/Kuala Lumpur, United Kingdom Artist


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