Joe Hargan

About Joe Hargan

Joe Hargan is highly respected and stands out among Scottish artists as he rejects the pastiche (imitation) and is his own man, with his own unique artistic style – that is why his art is so interesting to his many collectors. Joe is proud of the fact that his skills were honed in one of the greatest periods of Scottish artistic training; when drawing and painting and how to use materials were rigorously taught. He describes taking several hours to do a single study of a model in the morning and then being asked to do multiple fifteen minute paintings of the same model in the afternoon – the difference between a tight and a more energetic and spirited drawing. He asserts that many of his best drawings were when he used his instincts rather than use every last detail of observation.