Creating Peace one Painting at a Time
Geoffrey has been creating art ever since he could hold a pencil, and painting in oil since age 15. With an extensive catalogue built up from a consistent painting practice spanning over 30 years, and his current work showcasing his strongest, most confident voice yet, he is prepared to bring his message of peace, love, connection, and unity to the world at a time when he believes it is needed more than ever.
His work has been influenced by his longtime interest in painting, nature, spirituality, the non-violent Japanese Martial Art, Aikido, yoga, meditation, the writings of Deepak Chopra, Thoreau, and more. In an effort to bring peace into the world, the artist chooses to create soft, quiet, soothing, meditative spaces where both he (during the act of creating) and those viewing the work are provided an opportunity to go within and connect with a deeper, non-mental, non-judgmental, awareness and reality.
Geoffrey’s art, although abstract in nature, is reminiscent of a landscape in flux. The breathy, rhythmic brushstrokes laid down suggest a smooth flow of movement from one area of the painting, one space, one moment, into the next. As the landscape of our lives and the circumstances of today change and differ from that of yesterday, we change, we evolve. No two moments are the same, each one is unique and yet beyond this reality, there is an infinite, timeless space / reality which never changes. It is constant and unwavering. This is the space he aims to enter and depict during the act of painting / creation.
Born in Suffern, New York (Rockland County) in 1975, Artist Geoff Harrison was raised in Northern New Jersey and graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a B.F.A. in Studio Art in 1998.
He developed a career in high-end picture framing over 27 years starting in New Jersey and New York City and finally in Seattle where his persistence got him a job with Seattle’s prestigious Plasteel Frames. He would purchase the company within eight years and in addition to improving it’s already great reputation for quality, he developed a line of closed corner (Wood Splined, Inlaid, and Shaped) hardwood picture frames, designing with and selling them locally through Plasteel as well as wholesaling them to picture framers, nationally.
He also established an art gallery offering both contemporary art and 19th and early 20th c. art. During this period, Geoffrey was the premier picture framer and art handler of the most valuable collections in the Pacific Northwest. All the while he continued to develop and refine his own voice in painting.
Geoffrey’s work is directly related to breath and breathing, movement of the breath, body, and spirit, being present, and being in the flow state where all things are possible.