Harold is a self-taught painter from Kilburn, London. His work looks at the strange or mismatched parts of everyday life, moments that feel off, artificial, or quietly unsettling. Using cropped images, dulled colours, and stripped back details, he pulls back and encourages the viewer to look again.
The work doesn’t mean to explain, but instead holds space for uncertainty. Much of his practice is shaped by being self-taught. Starting out he would throw work away or hide paintings he was uncertain about under the bed. That ongoing process of learning by mistake, is central to how he works now.
Harold’s paintings often circle around themes like consumerism, human disconnect, and the pressure to perform normality. They don’t try to preach. Just hint, and leave room. The work is about trying to understand what it means to be human, in a world that by the day, feels less ‘human’. Harold’s work has been shown with General Assembly in the Loire Valley and in Hong Kong.