Gabryel Harrison
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Harrison works predominately in the medium of oil painting, but her body of work includes printmaking, texts, video and sculptural objects. Gabryel is a painter inspired by the natural world and in particular its botanical forms. In her hands, the temporality of our existence is revealed in the gestural abstractions of florals, foliage and landforms. Her large scale oils on canvas speak in washes, layers and heavily impastoed passages of our own brief transit through this mysterious universe. As a visual artist who also writes poetry, this art form and Harrison’s favuorite poets are also a major source of inspiration for her work.
"Meditating on ordinary, simple elements of nature; land, light, and flowers, I can say that for me, as spoken before by other painters, “Painting is another form of praying”. Painting is my practice of being fully present, intentional and alive to life. Looking deeply at the rose, the peony, the foliage, seeing deeply into the land and the surrounding space and air within which we exist, I am touched and opened to a deeper reverence for all forms of life and our interwoven existence through time. Every flower is perishable and each one of our lives is but a brief flowering. All that we are and all that we love are part of a great current, a moving stream of ever arising and vanishing possibilities. My paintings are reflections on the temporal arc of this natural and beautiful passage". -Gabryel Harrison |
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