About The Photographers
Colin Harrison Marcy Juran Terry TougasColin Harrison
Colin Harrison was born in the Steel City of Sheffield in the North of England and grew up in the North Sea resort town of Scarborough. From birth he was destined to be creative. At the age of four he exhibited right-brain thinking, assembling Meccano Erector set models without instructions. At 7 years he was given a Kodak Brownie camera and taught himself how to process film. He became a PhD engineer, working at CERN in Geneva, at EMI Research near London on the first clinically useful MRI, and finally a long and world-wide career with IBM as a Distinguished Engineer.
Over several years, he studied natural art photography with Freeman Patterson in St. John’s, New Brunswick. From these experiences, he learned to see “the act of photography” as a human response to the inherent spirit of natural scenes. He participates regularly in solo and group shows in western Connecticut, most recently the Brookfield Craft Center, the Bethel, Brookfield, and Roxbury Libraries, the Carriage Barn, the Easton Arts Council, and the Ridgebury Meetinghouse, winning various awards. He has a great love of alpine scenes and plants at varying scales, and his works on alpine subjects are in the permanent collection of the Town of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. In retirement he teaches photography at the Brookfield Craft Center. His work is focused on developing his own and his students’ skills in observing and responding emotionally, over a wide range of scales, to what he calls “Nature’s Art”.
Marcy Juran
Marcy Juran is a visual artist with a practice that includes photography, encaustic and handmade paper. Juran combines personal narratives with the natural environs of her native New England, exploring themes of myth, memory and legacy, often in relationship to botanical imagery. Her work in photography began at Cranbrook Academy of Art, as part of her graduate study in graphic design. Throughout her extensive career in graphic design, she collaborated with numerous photographers, creating award-winning work for both corporate and not for profit clients, strongly grounded in photographic storytelling.
Her work has been recognized both internationally and in the US, and exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), and the Soho Photo Gallery (NY), as well as juried and invitational shows at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (ME), Sohn Fine Art (MA), the Center for Photographic Art (CA), the Davis Orton Gallery (NY), the SE Center for Photography (SC), PhotoPlace (VT), and the A Smith Gallery (TX), as well as many regional galleries in New England. In 2021, her body of work Family Passage was selected for honors in the exhibition 30 OVER 50 | In Context at the Center for Fine Art Photography (CO) by juror Arnika Dawkins, as well as being awarded First Place in the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Digital Manipulation & Collage (series). Her work has been published in the photographic publications Fraction, Lenscratch and Don’t Take Pictures, and recently featured in OneTwelve and FRAMES. Her book, SALTMARSH SEASONS, was selected for inclusion in the Eighth Annual Self-published Photobook Show at the Davis Orton Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
She is an exhibiting member of the Rowayton Arts Center (Rowayton) and the Carriage Barn (New Canaan), as well as a member of the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester MA) and the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel CA)
Juran holds an A.B. from Brown University, with a concentration in Studio Art, focused on printmaking, with additional studies in graphic design, printmaking, and photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Cranbrook, and the Maine Media Workshops + College. She works from her studio in her century-old farmhouse in the coastal community of Westport, Connecticut, surrounded by towering oaks, maples and cedars, historic stone walls, native wildflowers, and an ever-changing vernal pond.
Terry Tougas
From an early age, I’ve always been interested in exploring the physical world around me. I have an inquisitive nature that drives me to explore and challenge the status quo. I credit this quality with leading me to graduate studies in Chemistry and a career in the sciences. I’ve had a wonderful time exploring the chemical world that has included stints as a university professor directing graduate research, product development in the photographic/imaging sciences arena, and for the last quarter century pharmaceutical development. The latter took an interesting twist when I became involved with efforts to promote cross industry collaborations on scientific
problems.
I have long held the view that creativity is equally important to the scientist and the artist. My creative outlets outside the scientific realm include photography and woodworking. I enjoy seeing common objects from a different perspective. We love to travel and trying to capture the essence of a new place or event in still images is a strong motivation in my photography.
In the wood shop, I design, and build a variety of pieces including furniture, toys and household items. Perhaps my most ambitious project to date was a cedar strip canoe. I credit my late father with introducing me to the art of woodworking and instilling in me a love of working with your hands to create items that are both useful and aesthetically pleasing.
