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
The sunsets of Lake Huron are fabled to be the prettiest in the world. Long after the sun has gone, however, just before the darkness falls the sky takes on a calm glow stained pink and orange at the horizon by the last colour of the fading day. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 ... Continue Reading
As the clouds clear in the long light as the sun sets, the air is filled with the smell of passing rain over a lake in northern Ontario. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 The painting is available for purchase. Continue Reading
Like many of my paintings this one has a story. Painted in the summer of 2007, I originally abandoned it to the garbage can. It sat there poking out of the trash for two weeks before one in a series of concerned neighbours finally convinced me to rescue it and rework it into it&# ... Continue Reading
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
Incorporating loosely controlled physical interactions in my painting process means that occasionally accidents completely change the direction of a piece midway through their realization. Initially a source of frustration I have begun to embrace the unexpected and experiment wit ... 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
Most of the time I don’t explicitly say what I think I am depicting in my paintings. When a painting is of a specific moment, or was inspired by an event, it can be fun to relate the anecdotal critique; but in contrast, when a painting comes from a purely mental image it ... Continue Reading