'Dark Forest' Oil On Aluminium, Unframed

Harriets paintings explore the tension between meticulous, almost photographic realism and a looser, more expressive painterly approach. Working from her own photographs, her subjects have evolved from portraiture to forest landscapes, united by a sense of atmosphere, quiet drama and an implied, open-ended narrative.

Harriet's recent work focuses on small, often-overlooked areas of woodland. Using oil paint and techniques developed through portraiture, she transforms tightly cropped photographs into paintings that invite personal interpretation. By altering colour and removing obvious markers of place or season, the landscapes become suspended between memory and imagination, evoking the dreamlike, the familiar and the unknown.