Artist about Cambridge

About Jon Harris

Jon Harris has lived aloft in the same central city flat since 1964. Duncan Robinson well describes him as 'a fixture in Cambridge a kind of prematurely wise owl peering down from his perch above the rooftops of Trinity and Green Streets'. Jon was born in 1943 his father a naval engineer of New Zealand origin his mother the daughter of a Scottish doctor. His works have been widely exhibited in East Anglian and London galleries and found their way into many a private collection. Patrick Carnegy has known Jon since they were undergraduates at Trinity Hall in the early 1960s. In 1997 he curated the exhibition of JH's work at the Fitzwilliam Museum. He has been assistant editor at the TLS music books editor at Faber and Faber and dramaturg at the Royal Opera House. Dr Carnegy's publications include Faust as Musician: a study of Thomas Mann's 'Dr Faustus' (1973) and Wagner and the Art of the Theatre (2006) which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. Rob Howard trained alongside JH at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After working for architects in London USA and India he joined Applied Research of Cambridge and ran the Construction Industry Computing Association for 20 years. He then became Professor of IT in Construction at the Danish University of Technology and a Visiting Fellow at a Finnish University before retiring to lecture and paint.