Exhibit Opening and Reception | 12:00 noon Friday | June 12 | Exhibit runs through August

Harriet Speer paints what she sees. She began in oils and acrylics before watercolor found her in Savannah—a medium that suits both the city’s humid air and her contemplative approach. Savannah’s light, her garden, the particular hush of a familiar room—these become her subjects, allowing her to simply sit and look. Her art carries that quietness.

Originally from Augusta, Harriet has been rooted in Savannah for two decades. Self-taught, she came to painting in her mid-forties—a second language she has since made her own. Her earlier years, shaped by studies in art history and French at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, and an inspirational season in Paris, have left her with a French sense of aesthetics that works on her subconsciously and becomes evident in the way she responds to architecture, to the elements of balance and proportion, and to joie de vivre as a visual idea.