Biography
Dana Harrison is a multidisciplinary artist based in Warkworth, Ontario. Creativity has shaped how she moves through the world for as long as she can remember, influencing how she learns, pays attention, and makes sense of her surroundings. Alongside her studio practice, she has spent decades working in creative fields where visual language, ideas, and problem-solving are part of everyday life. While her professional work is grounded in communication and design, her artwork grows from a more personal impulse to translate lived experience into form.
Harrison’s practice is process-driven, using different ways of working to carry the feeling of a place through colour and texture. Her approach is informed by an early connection to manual forms of production and a continued interest in working directly with materials. Processes such as serigraphy, relief printmaking, and using a flatbed scanner as an image-making tool allow her to distill what she encounters into essential visual elements, shaped through attention and repetition rather than description.
Her work is guided by a commitment to living creatively each day, using creative practice as a way to explore place, perception, and feeling, and to offer those experiences back to others in a shared visual language.
Artist Statement
My work begins with an exploration of place, guided by the presence of colour, texture, and rhythm in the natural world.
I need to be physically present, to spend time moving through a landscape and noticing how it feels to be there. The work grows from these encounters and continues to unfold gradually.
I carry these impressions with me and allow them to surface slowly through making. The studio becomes a space for slowing down and paying closer attention, where sensations, memories, and responses are shaped. My intention is to stay close to how a place is felt rather than how it is described, and to translate that experience with care and restraint.
I am interested in forms of fascination that move at a different pace than human systems, and that are often passed by without notice. Absorbed in our own structures and rhythms, we rarely stay long enough to register them. Through my work, I offer an invitation to slow down, to feel, and to reconnect with what quietly persists around us.
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Exhibitions
2026 Apple Route Studio Tour (group show & Open Studio) - East Northumberland County
2024 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto
2023 Kingston Square Foot Show, Tett Centre - Kingston
2023 “Making Warkworth”, Ah! Centre - Warkworth
2023 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto
2022 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair - Toronto
Solo Exhibitions
2025 K-Okay Café and Roasters - Warkworth
2023 Plants & Flowers, Royal Service Office - Warkworth
Residencies
2026 Self Guided - Canmore Alberta - Canada
2025 Atelier AiR - Westcove Estate - Ireland
Press and Publications
2023 New Visionary Magazine, Issue 8 - Print Magazine
Representation
Dimensions Gallery (Toronto)
Collectors
2022 Intuit Inc., - Toronto