Beautifully illustrated with over 200 color images, Nothing Wasted is the first complete overview of one of Britain's greatest contemporary painters, Richard Harrison.

At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation's galleries of modern art, Richard Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition. His early work was essentially abstract, and abstract values have formed the armature of all of his later work, but in subject he has moved from an...