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Alison Harrison

Alison Harrison is a painter and sculptor whose work combines a natural understanding of colour and form. She studied Classical Greek Civilization as part of her degree and has always been interested in human origins and culture. Her varied styles and subject matter are necessarily eclectic, merging past and present to communicate her view of humanity.

We live with the paradox that in an amoral universe, of which we are a product, we have evolved self-awareness and a conscience. We fail to reconcile our instinctive behaviours with the ideals we believe in. Utopia can be sung, painted and written about, but not lived.

My work explores such thoughts with gentle irony and humour. The diversity of the images is deliberate to express the ever poignant, never resolved debate. The subject matter is drawn from places, situations and people I encounter; yet the paintings and sculpture are detached from the noise and difficulties of everyday life. Instead they have a dream-like quality, non judgemental and drawing no conclusions.

Web: alisonharrison.artcb.co.uk