The IAAA STEAM Team is proud to announce Garry L. Harwood as The Space Artist of the Quarter: June 2026, and feature his astronomical artwork, All That We Inherit Shall Dissolve, for the Art of the Quarter: June 2026!

ARTIST BIO

Garry L. Harwood is a painter born in 1959 in London, England. Having initially studied for a career as a marine biologist and physical oceanographer he turned to painting full time in 2009 following three decades working in the jewellery industry. His interest in the natural and physical sciences and the role played by the artist in the visualization of scientific data and its communication to the public occasionally influences his work. He has exhibited his paintings in Europe, Chile, the USA, and in the UK, with the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Chelsea Art Society amongst others. A fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, he presently lives and works on the wild, Atlantic-facing coastline of the West Penwith peninsula at the extreme western tip of Cornwall.

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Website: http://www.garryharwood.co.uk/

ARTIST STATEMENT

The hopes and dreams of a civilization of bipedal apes attempting to come to terms with their existence are encapsulated for me in creations such as Pioneer 10. I find it poignant and sobering to think that this little spacecraft may well continue to drift out there perhaps for many millions or even billions of years, long after humanity has become extinct. All That We Inherit Shall Dissolve depicts Pioneer 10 adrift among the stars, silhouetted against the star clouds and dark nebulae of our Milky-Way galaxy, untold eons in the future. I consider this my most important space art painting. Created in 2003 in memory of my mother, it serves as a reminder of the transience of life at individual, species, and cosmic scales. The title is taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest:

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solomn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." IV,i,148