Colin Harrison grew up on the North Sea coast of England and studied engineering and physics in London and Munich. After working as an engineer in Geneva, London, San Jose, Yorktown Heights, Zurich, and Armonk, he retired in 2013 and continues to live with his wife, Lynn, by the Housatonic River in Connecticut. Photography has been a passion since he received a Kodak Brownie camera at age seven, learned how to process film at night in the family garage, and how to see on the coast and moors of North Yorkshire. Later, Switzerland introduced him to the high mountains and the jewel-like beauty of alpine flowers. It remains a second home.
While he enjoys documenting the regions of these two homes, his deeper interests lie in finding abstract patterns in nature and in minimalism. Since retiring he has presented works at galleries in Connecticut, winning prizes in juried shows at the University of Connecticut Stamford and the New Canaan Carriage Barn Gallery. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Commune of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. He also teaches Fine Art Photography at the Brookfield Craft Center and elsewhere.
Colin Harrison grew up on the North Sea coast of England and studied engineering and physics in London and Munich. After working as an engineer in Geneva, London, San Jose, Yorktown Heights, Zurich, and Armonk, he retired in 2013 and continues to live with his wife, Lynn, by the Housatonic River in Connecticut. Photography has been a passion since he received a Kodak Brownie camera at age seven, learned how to process film at night in the family garage, and how to see on the coast and moors of North Yorkshire. Later, Switzerland introduced him to the high mountains and the jewel-like beauty of alpine flowers. It remains a second home.
While he enjoys documenting the regions of these two homes, his deeper interests lie in finding abstract patterns in nature and in minimalism. Since retiring he has presented works at galleries in Connecticut, winning prizes in juried shows at the University of Connecticut Stamford and the New Canaan Carriage Barn Gallery. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Commune of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. He also teaches Fine Art Photography at the Brookfield Craft Center and elsewhere.