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oil on canvas
61 x 122 cm / 24 x 48 in
oil on canvas
76 x 91 cm / 30 x 36 in
oil on canvas
79 x 109 cm / 31 x 43 in
mixed media on panel
84 x 118 cm / 33 x 47 in
oil on canvas
109 x 109 cm / 43 x 43 in
oil on canvas
61 x 89 cm / 24 x 35 in
oil on canvas
135 x 137 cm / 53 x 54 in
oil on canvas
61 x 76 cm / 24 x 30 in
oil on canvas
91 x 137 cm / 36 x 54 in
acrylic on canvas
137 x 137 cm / 54 x 54 in
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acrylic on canvas
132 x 213 cm / 52 x 84 in (2 panels)
mixed media on panel
138 x 138 cm / 54 x 54 in
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Gabryel Harrison was born in New Zealand, and now lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. She completed a Fine Arts Degree at the University of Ottawa in 1980, later fulfilling post- graduate requirements to become an art therapist in 1992. Working as an art therapist until 1996, and thereafter in the creative arts field, Harrison has devoted herself to paint full-time since 1999.
Gabryel Harrison is an artist inspired by the common roots of painting and poetry, the rhythmic gesture from heart to line, the inspiration of image, metaphor and symbol. She looks to nature and botanical forms as well as to the historical tradition of vanitas paintings for her motifs and compositions. Her expressions are less about representation than illuminations of inner states of consciousness. Working in translucent layers of oil paint, she sometimes incorporates crushed rose petals or other organic or inorganic matter that becomes a physical carrier of meaning and memory. Gold leaf is occasionally used in symbolic reference to the transmutation of human consciousness- the objective of spiritual alchemy. The physical act of painting is the artist's self-abandonment to the challenge of life's ambiguities, her pleasures, her melancholy, her tenderness and her joys.