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Exhibition by Rod Harman

Maitre de Cabestany, tympanum of the Assumption, Cabestany, Perpignan The artist Rod Harman is a full-time artist and teacher. He has taught for many years on the Foundation course at Hastings College of Art. He has an MA from the Royal College of Art. The artist writes “As background to the exhibition: it is of inter-related work made in the Pyrenees-Orientales featuring the massif of Canigou (Holy Mountain of the Catalan people) and a stone tympanum, The Assumption of the Virgin, by the Master of Cabestany. The region is where the Silk Route terminated and Romanesque art grew and where over many years I have set up camp to paint. I was born at the other end of the route, China (to medical missionary parents), so foreign lands and tongues are not new to me. My indebtedness (education) is to my upbringing, many living artist/friends, and the living iteration of the long, long dead. Just as the pack animals carried a migration of treasures, cultures and civilizations it is my firm belief that ALL THOUGHT IS IN ‘TONGUES’ – it is given – not difficult to assimilate. We are shown. My dream/intention was to make drawings (like beads) and select a necklace of pictures that others could put on. Always at the back of my mind was the example set by Cabestany – however incredible, that the dead can be raised and Heaven is in reach. The interface of the spectator with the exhibition is what matters - iconography crosses dreams and art.”
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