Recently I was commissioned by Zavitz Insurance / Jindal Financial to create a mural-sized painting for their corporate headquarters. The painting is a pentaptych which measures 100 inches by 60 inches, and is based on a smaller painting the company purchased from a recent show. ... Continue Reading
untitled (detail), by nik harron, 2009 I painted this work in 2009 to further explore the themes in “Angry Trees“. It is part of the private collection of Shawn Adamsson, who selected it from all the available works in 2009 as his 40th birthday present. (Happy birthda ... Continue Reading
There is a story associated with this painting. It represents an event that took place late in the summer of 2008 on the shoreline of the Pinery Provincial Park in Southwestern Ontario. As anyone who has visited the shores of Lake Huron knows, the winter storms can wash a substan ... Continue Reading
untitled (detail), 2008 First of all, I have to say that this painting is one of my favourites. It was painted the day after I spent a wonderful August afternoon floating in the warm, soupy green waters south of Port Franks. I wanted to capture the intense colours of the water an ... Continue Reading
This painting was created as part of the “24-Hour Rush for The Arts Project” fundraiser. The painting is now in the private collection of Laurie Bursch, whose generous winning bid at the silent auction contributed to a total of over $9000 in support for London, Ontari ... 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
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