Photographs by Britt Willoughby Dyer.

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time”

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, Four Quartets, Sept. 1942

Time, one of the consoling and meditative themes throughout T.S. Eliot’s set of poems Four Quartets, is also an implicit frame around Pink Harrison’s paintings.

In delicate choices of oils and watercolours, Pink turns our eyes to places and subjects both new and familiar.

This causes people to look again as Eliot suggests “And know the place for the first time”, whether this be a location, our relationship with Nature, ourselves, or with one another.

Burnt Norton, the mansion house where Eliot visited in 1934 and drew inspiration for the first of the Four Quartets was the setting for Pink Harrison’s greatly successful exhibition open, August 20-21, 2021.

Attended by collectors and buyers and a great number of works sold, the days were rich in conversation on the places and subjects within Pink’s work and questions on her forthcoming work.

Pink Harrison’s life is her joyous appreciation of places, people and subjects and sharing these in her chosen media.

Her artistic explorations lead her to capture and share Time experienced across continents and cultures; places where Nature and people share differences, or light falls in captivating and marvelous ways.

No rules on materials, subject or method are the exploratory map, compass and guide on her ceaseless curiosity; rendering the beauty of Time Past and illustrating that Time Present is where we can celebrate in restoration as we find the future.

David J. Nicoll, Osseddu, Sardinia, Sept. 2021.