Harry Garner

Harry Garner, 1998, was born in rural Leicestershire into a multi-generational farming family. He left the family farm and studied Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University. Harry’s work has been exhibited across the UK, but he continues to live and work in Liverpool.

Exploring contemporary themes of faith and uncertainty, Harry creates works that allude to narrative and tell stories through implication. He is fascinated by the idea that painting can provide information, but not answers.

Using figurative painting allows Harry to stage vignettes, often derived from a historical context, that balance between the ambiguous and the specific. His subject matter defies straightforward interpretation, and often shifts between portrait and still life genres. This provokes the viewer to become more than a passive consumer, instead they take an active role, adding their own narrative to each scene; through their personal connections or memories of figures and objects they are allowed the space to tell their own visual story.