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Jennifer Harrison
Self-taught artist Jennifer Harrison was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1972. Since 1998, Jennifer has been a full-time painter, exhibiting throughout North America. Her favorite subject will always be the Victorian houses surrounding her Toronto home.
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday December 2, 2004 6pm-8pm
OPEN DAILY: Wednesday thru Friday, 11am-530pm; Saturdays 11am-5pm
CLOSING: Saturday January 22, 2005
WHERE: Garde Rail Gallery - 110 Third Avenue South - Tel.206.621.1055
AND ONLINE: www.garde-rail.com
"I spent a lot of years living in horrible apartments with no heat and no windows and I think houses were something to aspire to. I guess I got a little obsessed. Also, before I wanted to be an artist, I wanted to be an architect."
"I work with oils because it's the only way to get the colours I want, and canvas just because I enjoy the feel of it, the paint goes on smooth and it's responsive to my brush. I paint the houses I see around me or from pictures and I usually change the colours to ones that I like. I paint very slowly and methodically."
Jennifer paints houses from places that one day she may like to visit. Evoking English seaside towns, Jennifer's rowhouses fill up a canvas in pastel tones. The thick, almost icing-on-the-cake-like quality of her work radiates a simple charm that is quite difficult to ignore.
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