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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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