Apr '06 - Richard Harrison Review

In January of this year, Richard Harrison, one of the artists that exhibit at The Fusion Gallery had an exhibition at a London gallery which was reviewed by Brian Sewell in the London Evening Standard Newspaper. Brian Sewell is an Influential and multi award winning art critic; he is renowned for his forthright and uncompromising views.

His comments on Richard Harrison’s work, “In an age when anything can be called art, it is refreshing to find an artist revelling in traditional values, who still looks at landscape, who still cares about the observation of a subject that depends on drawing, who still, in the representation of that subject, enjoys the sensual activity of manipulating paint with brush and palette knife. All who have watched him over the past decade and more have seen the evolution and perfection of a landscape theme as fit for the creation of the world.”

The Fusion Gallery is delighted to be featuring a collection of Richard Harrison’s work on level 2. The body of work features paintings on a truly awesome scale. Landscapes inspired by wilderness, mountains, desert and organic forms of rocks and trees. Seascapes, which are flowing, powerful, turbulent, totally absorbing. If you are looking for a ‘wow factor’ painting, you need look no further. There are also paintings featured on a smaller scale.

Harrison’s work is rich in colour and texture, the content exaggerated by the dynamic and energetic handling of capacious layers of paint skilfully manipulated to create a dynamic expression of form and colour. His paintings are most certainly contemporary, skilled and individual in their style.