Art has been recreation for me throughout my life. My inspiration to draw and paint comes from my daily experiences with plants, trees, and flowers. Their form and rich colors attract me, especially when light hits them just right or they make interesting shadows on the tabletop or ground. Blending of different media adds additional opportunity to explore composition and play with fantasy that brings surprising images to paper. Thus, while the subject matter of my art varies, nature, especially flora, continues to dominate most of my compositions.
While I appreciate the charm and detail of Jan Brett’s illustrations for children’s books and I am awed by Richard Estes’s photo-realism and the massive size of his canvases, it is the complexity and vibrancy of Jan de Heem’s beautiful Flower Still Life that I aspire to – beautiful, moving color.
Artist's Biography
Harriet Lindemann was born in San Antonio, Texas, and has also lived in Virginia, Georgia, and California. She presently makes her home in Brunswick, Maine, with her husband and daughter. In all these places, gardening and art have been her pleasures.
She attended her first drawing classes in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1979, which led to oil painting instruction in Atlanta, Georgia (1983), and eventually to Kathleen Boldt’s color pencil classes in Brunswick, Maine (2003), where she studied color theory.
Having manipulated paint and art materials since childhood, she still enjoys experimenting with a variety of drawing and painting media. Those explorations, and the inspiration from photographs taken of her garden and neighborhood, provide a versatile, non-toxic antidote to Maine’s long winters. Beginning mainly with charcoal, graphite, and Prismacolor pencils, in 2005 she began using pastels and watercolor in her work; most recently she has gravitated toward ink and acrylic.
Harriet has been affiliated with Points of View at Studio 36 (Brunswick, Maine) and has participated in many local shows since 2004.
Afternoon Light