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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.
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