My paintings are memorable, bold and beloved! I am most known for my animal portraits and florals. My portraits are painted in the difficult oil style of wet-on-wet, or alla prima, and my florals are either alla prima or a build-up of acrylic, colored pencil and then finally oils. Either way, my paintings are realistic from far away but abstract up close. It’s important to me that the surface feels alive. My collectors love my mark-making and use of color.

I am inspired by Gustav Klimt, Vincent Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla.

One critic described my personal version of abstraction as “beautifully rooted in reality,” while Southwest Art wrote: “No matter the subject, the joy of painting for Harper is all about seeing shapes and colors on an abstract level and then interpreting them in her brush strokes.”