Rolf Harris
Coming From The Mill
Signed Limited Edition Giclee on paper of 695 Copies - Handsigned by Rolf Harris
Image size: 20" x 15"
Image comes in publishers mount, wrapped in cellophane, complete with COA
Released: October 2004
From the Rolf Harris Tour Brochure:
This painting was a wonderful learning process for me. I discovered that Lowry would prepare his canvas by smearing on flake white oil paint with a palette knife, then putting the flat of the knife blade down on the paint and lifting it up to create a spiky all over rough surface on the paint. He then left the paint to dry, sometimes for as long as 2 years, before painting his pictures on that rough surface. I didn't have that long, so I did the same process, but used acrylic white, which was totally dry in a few days. It was fascinating to work onto that rough spiky surface, and gave an effect which I loved - so much, that I've used it in several paintings since, notably one of two old men sitting on church steps in Malta, and more recently in 'Lifelong Friends', also from Malta.
In this painting of mine I did a broken, falling down type fence in the foreground to remind me of old fences in Australia, and there was one fascinating thing. I put in two characters next to the fence, based on some drawings of people I'd met in Salford where Lowry worked. The interesting thing was, the modern husband and wife looked firstly so well dressed, and secondly, so well fed, compared to the men and woman filling Lowry's 'depression years' picture. I loved doing this painting.
