I love getting the chance to use my Michael Harding tubes of vibrant Vermillion, Cadmium Orange and Naples Yellow in these places. The opportunity to use such intense colour is rare in my town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Mark Shasha “Painting is a calling for me. It is a longing for those moments when the poetry happens when […]
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This handwritten note by Howard Hodgkin reads: “Michael Harding’s paints are splendid and I wish he had started making them a long time ago. The colours are superb, also the weight and texture seem to be exactly what I want – it’s difficult to imagine anything else.” Howard Hodgkin, 12 June 1996
Read MoreMH Ambassador Jessica Oliver’s latest hobby is one that many dream of. Not only does Jessica have the pleasure of living and breathing art, she now gets to explore the different ways in which artists use Michael Harding Hand Made Oil Paint and Artists Materials. For her first feature on our blog, Jessica went to […]
Read MoreThis is a rare, intimate exploration of a single oil painting… … and the first major film to reveal the motive and techniques behind each stroke of paint as the artist creates. The audience is plunged in to the artist’s darkly comic obsessive mind, what starts as a blank canvas, emerges Peter Howson’s monumental oil […]
Read MoreWatch renown artist Quang Ho discuss his way of working and his love for Michael Harding oil paints. An exclusive private interview, filmed in San Diego 2017.
British Plein air artist and tutor Vicki Norman experiments with Michael Harding’s Pale Violet oil colour.
British Plein air artist and tutor Vicki Norman experiments with Michael Harding’s Green Gold oil colour.
British Plein air artist and tutor Vicki Norman experiments with Michael Harding’s Permanent Green Light oil colour.
British Plein air artist and tutor Vicki Norman experiments with Michael Harding’s Permanent Orange oil colour.
British Plein air artist and tutor Vicki Norman experiments with Michael Harding’s series 1, 2 and 3 oil colours to discover how to mix flesh tones.