Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, October 4, 2024: Connie Harrison, an emerging British painter (#2128)

Connie Harrison (1993) is an emerging British artist, who lives and works in London. She works by overlaying landscapes with different compositions, building up an overall sense of an abstracted landscape. Organic, natural forms and elements, float between foreground and background, in and out of familiarity.

Through their varied surfaces, compositions emerge slowly through a process of layering and stripping away oil paint and a wax paste. Throughout the painting process parts of the surface unfold in texture, mark, opacity and colour, which overlay and entwine with one another; simulating movement and adding depth to the imagery as if they are growing.

Her process is a metaphor to the natural rhythms and circular life cycles. Paintings grow organically, layer by layer, working on and developing an underlying pattern, like leaves and sedimentary rock. There is a juxtaposition to the surface, deep mark making and exposed areas reveal traces of the painting below.

Connie Harrison graduated from Chelsea College of Arts, after completing a foundation at New College, Nottingham. Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘In Midst, Unfolding, Informality, London (2023), ‘Knitted Hedges’, Blue Shop Gallery, London (2023), ‘Nurtured Furrows’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh (2022). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Guts Gallery (2024), Arusha Gallery (2023), Delphian Gallery (2021), Flowers Gallery (2020), among others.

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