[2] Harding is known for his oil paintings done in a thickly layered impasto technique, his watercolours, and his large scale drawings in ink, mainly for landscape subjects; he is also an acclaimed portrait artist.
[3] Harding won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear.
[8] His painting Beach life (pink zinc and figures) 2006 won the inaugural Kilgour Prize at the Newcastle Art Gallery in 2006.
[9] In 2015 his painting Beached (Yuraygir self portrait) won the National Self-Portrait Prize People's Choice Award.
[17][1] An exhibition of his final landscapes opened at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane less than two weeks later.