Heidi Harrington
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Biography
Education
1988 Spent 3 months in Spain, making copies from Velasquez paintings at The Prado and in museums just outside of Madrid.
1985-1988 University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, BA(Honours) in Fine Art
1984-1985 St Albans College of Art and Design, Foundation Course
1977-1984 Sheredes School, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire (9 'O' levels, 3 'A' levels)
Awards
1989 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
1988 The Richard Ford Award, The Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Stand-up Sitting, Riverside Studios, London
2000 Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire
2000 Radisson-Edwardian Pastoria Hotel, Leicester Square, London
1999 Radisson-Edwardian Marlborough Hotel, London
1993 Greenwich Theatre, London
1992 European Festival, Broxbourne Civic Centre, Herts
1990 Haileybury College, Hertford Heath, Herts
1989 Copies from the Prado, Long Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1989 Sketches of Spain, Grey's Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2002 New Haven Arts Club, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2000 Bennett Galleries, Knoxville Tennessee, USA
2000 Size Isn't Everything, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1999 Millennium Wing Opening Exhibition, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Eastleigh, Hamphire
1999 Manor House Gallery, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
1999 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1998 Summer Exhibition, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire
1996 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1995-1997 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994-1996 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1993 Cooling Gallery, Cork Street, London
1992 Migrane Images, St Martin's Gallery, London
1987 Spotlight on the Collection, Laing City Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Selected Portrait Commissions
Terry Jones (Monty Python)
Nick Faldo (British Golfer)
Ronnie Corbett OBE
Jimmy Tarbuck
Nigel Planer
Jenny Eclair
Hattie Hayridge
Dave Schneider
Helen Atkinson Wood
Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen)
Stephen Frost
'I see painting portraits as a bit like creating a short film on canvas. The painter is distilling
expressions from the sitter over a space of time but these are contained in one still image.
When a painting has really worked it is not only a tribute to the sitter's features but also to their mind'.
