[1] Harte always maintained that print was in his blood, his grandfather being a printer by trade and his earliest memory being a garden path made from lithograph stones.
Some of his early exhibited work at the Royal College included Gertrude Stein With Alice B Toklas Wallpaper, Nice: Jetée Promenade Avec Biscuit and Lady Cunard And Pig, which were created by the mix media of images culled from postcards, newspaper photographs and food packaging.
Dring the 1970s, Stoppard was one of Harte's painted portraits,[4] with others sitting for him included actor John Wood, musician Brian Eno, novelist Isobel Strachey, painter Duncan Grant and the American composer Virgil Thomson.
[1] Harte would collaborate with filmmaker and publisher Jonathan Gili to produce several books, including "Weekend In Dieppe", "Sardines à l'huile" and a deluxe illustrated version of Betjeman's "Metro-Land".
His last to big projects was artist-in-residence during the rebuilding of the Royal Opera House, and his paintings of the work in progress were exhibited on the re-opening night in December 1999.