A Sunshine Coast artist is outselling Picasso, Da Vinci and Renoir in Europe’s print-on-demand market.
Ashvin Harrison’s print-on-demand sales are currently sitting only behind Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.
Mr Harrison said the achievement had been confirmed through German fine art publisher Posterlounge for the 2023–2024 period, in a statement released through his publicist.
During that period he was the highest-ranked contemporary artist on the list.
The sales relate to Mr Harrison’s 2016-2022 reproduction print collection. In 2023 he stopped all mass market distribution licences to fully protect the scarcity of his physical market.
“I never imagined my work would one day be mentioned in the same conversation as artists whose names shaped the history of art,” Mr Harrison said.
“To think that people around the world are choosing my artwork alongside some of the greatest masters ever to hold a paintbrush is incredibly humbling.”
Mr Harrison has done more than 30 different jobs in his working life. In 2017, he made the decision to leave teaching and pursue art full-time.
“It was one of the biggest risks of my life,” he said. “I walked away from security because I believed I had something unique to offer the world.”
His artwork is now collected in more than 50 countries and is recognised for its distinctive artistic style known as Motusrealism.
Motusrealism combines “hyper-realistic charcoal drawing using coconut charcoal powder with expressive acrylic and oil painting to create artworks filled with movement, emotion and storytelling”.
“I’ve never wanted to paint what people expect,” he said. “I want to create artwork that makes people stop, think and feel something.”
Mr Harrison’s artwork videos have generated more than one billion views across social media, helping him build more than two million followers worldwide.
He is preparing for a New York solo exhibition and the release of an Australian-made couture fashion collaboration inspired by his work.
More details on his work are available here.
