While not a literal representation of the aurora borealis, the colour and sense of light in this painting is evocative of the surreality of the northern lights. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 This painting is available for purchase. Continue Reading
I’m often asked by people who have seen the early stages of one of my paintings why I don’t ever exhibit works at the texture stage and forgo the glazing stage that brings colour to the paintings. This piece is probably about as close to that as I’ll get in the ... Continue Reading
For me this painting is a truly abstract landscape composed of fleeting mental impressions collected from aeroplane trips taken throughout several periods of my life. More than any of my landscapes to date, its creation relied on a loosely guided process of allowing water to inte ... Continue Reading
untitled (detail), 2009 A bit of a departure from terrestrial themes, this painting saw further experimentation with using water to sculpt the original sculptural layer. The lunar element was crafted a a separate piece that was bonded to the canvas, rather than being sculpted in ... Continue Reading
The next time the sun is shining while dogwood seeds float through the air, close one eye, stretch out your arm to eclipse the sun with the tip of your thumb and focus your eyes on the sky that surrounds it. Above you, for miles, drifts a giant dome of brilliant motes that danc ... Continue Reading
It’s obvious to anyone that I enjoy painting landscapes of water. I originally grew up on the sea in Ireland, and on the shores of Lake Huron here in Canada. This painting represents the lake when only the last ragged shades of daylight are left to define the line where wat ... Continue Reading
This painting is one of the original 4 landscapes that moved me from narrative works and urban network themes to confronting the individual relationship to nature as a way of exploring the fertile landscapes of internal, spiritual experience. Of the four original landscapes, this ... Continue Reading
This painting is the second in the original series of four landscapes that I did for the Carpe Vinum show in 2001. It continues to explore the themes of destruction, nature and light that underscored “trinity“. Although deceptively bleak, the text carved into the surf ... Continue Reading
water (detail), by nik harron, 2001 This final painting from the original landscape series examines the abstract quantum duality at the heart of our understanding of reality which represents for me a completely mental relationship with nature. It is a benign opposite to where the ... Continue Reading
