Glenn Harren, photo courtesy of the artist, James A. Michener Art Museum library

I am an artist that responds in color and shapes to the world around me. I seek the extraordinary aspects of everyday life, whether in the color of a landscape or the simple dignity of the human form. Glenn Harren

Glenn Harren is a Holicong artist who has been described as a cross between John Singer Sargent and Alice Neel. A more figural than impressionistic painter, he uses colors bold greens, blues and purples to create a story-like quality in landscapes and portraits. Harren paints with oil on linen, mostly using premade stretchers, but he makes his own frames. His subjects are the fields, farms and every day life of Bucks County - a woman at the laundromat or a man cooking eggs. He was influenced by the painter William A. Smith, who encouraged him to seek knowledge about art, leading to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he completed in 1981.