Roger Harrington

Roger Harrington's love of and acute sensitivity to nature is deeply rooted in boyhood adventures across the rolling hills of the Chemung Valley, in upstate New York. Roger was born in the Finger Lakes region and lived with his family in a 150 year old field stone house with no electricity or running water. The nearest neighbor was a mile away and it was a mile-and-a-half walk through wooded areas to the one room schoolhouse he attended until the age of 11.

Roger began to draw and explore art in high school after his family moved into the nearby city of Elmira. After high school, Roger enlisted in the Navy, serving as a communications expert during the Vietnam War in Asmara, Ethiopia. He traveled to Spain, Italy, Greece, and the Caribbean, exploring art museums, and drawing what he observed and experienced.

When his tour in the Navy ended, Roger attended Elmira College on GI Bill and earned his BS in Art Studio. He studied with, and became friends with, Alex Minewski, Joop Sanders and Gandy Brodie, all modern painters from New York City. These associations opened opportunities for Roger to show his work in New York, winning the respect of his peers and jury awards.

In the 1970s, Roger moved to the Blueridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he co-founded a cooperative art gallery and showed extensively. In 1994 he moved with his wife to the Big Island of Hawaii where he continued to paint. In 2002 the couple moved to Taos, NM and opened their first gallery. In 2008 the couple moved to Questa and opened Art Questa in 2009.

Roger's work may be found in collections at Appalachian State University, NationsBank, Idaho State House of Reprentatives, and numerous private collectors.