Life and work

Aynscomb-Harris was born in Farnham, Surrey on the 20th August 1937. He studied at Wimbledon College of Art

Wimbledon College of Art

Wimbledon College of Art is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London and is one of London's major art institutions. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London.-History:...

 1956–1958 and then Hornsey College of Art

Hornsey College of Art

Hornsey College of Art is a former college centred in Crouch End, London, England. Since 2008, the building has been a part of Coleridge Primary School, upon its expansion to four form entry...

 1958–1959. After teaching for five years, during which time he exhibited his work in many London galleries, he decided to become a professional artist.

Aynscomb-Harris has been painting professionally now for some fifty years and his work is represented in both international institutions and private collections including: Oxfordshire Education Committee, The National Bank of Detroit, Marks & Spencer LTD, Holbourn Aeros, Cado Furniture, G Plan Furniture, Gatx Shipping, Metropolitan Water Board, Rank Leisure Hotels, British Airways, Chase Manhattan Bank amongst others. He visits Scotland on a regular basis and is currently working on a whole series of Panoramic painting

Panoramic painting

Panoramic paintings are massive artworks that reveal a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject, often a landscape, military battle, or historical event. They became especially popular in the 19th Century in Europe and the United States, inciting opposition from writers of Romantic poetry...

s covering major landmarks in Scotland and the UK.

Aynscomb-Harris is a widely exhibited artist, having shown work in the U.K, France, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Italy and the U.S.A.

Solo

Woodstock Gallery, London; Weitzmann Gallery, London; Mansard Gallery, London; Heals Gallery, London; Liberty's, London; Ogilvy & Mather, London; Seen Gallery, London; Nicholas Martine Gallery, London; Kar Gallery of Fine Art, Canada; British Week Exhibition, California, U.S.A; The Forum Soho, New York, U.S.A.

Group

Royal Academy, London (1967); Grafton Gallery, London; Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham; Francis Iles Gallery, Rochester; De Ligney Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A; Gallerie Colbert, Canada, Gallerie Forlane, Paris; Hilton Gallery, London; Broadway Gallery, Broadway; Canaletto Gallery, London; Nicholas Treadwell Gallery

Nicholas Treadwell

Nicholas Treadwell owns the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, which started in 1963 in touring vehicles, after which it was run in buildings in London, Bradford and finally Austria. Treadwell has promoted the Superhumanism art movement, which is defined as an art of urban living, conveyed in a vivid and...

, London.