D a i s y H a r c o u r t
Coming soon
People & Place - series no. 4
In People and Place, I explore how place can reflect psychological states. When sitters describe a favourite place, they reveal values, character, and something of their essence. These works combine personal experience, archival material, and audio interviews as sources.
Portraits on copper
Historical Women Artists
This series of small oil paintings on copper depicts women painters spanning five centuries.
W o m e n & W o r d
Town House Spitalfields, 21st March - 21st April 2024
In this series I invited 14 contemporary women to write about their formative experiences of the written and spoken word. Each participant revealed their favourite words and discussed the writers and books that had influenced them. It was while considering what each sitter had written that I created each portrait.
Women & Word Review
Matilda Warner for Univ in the Arts
“This exhibition is a room of our own and we are delighted to welcome you,” writes Laura. In Daisy’s portraits, almost every woman looks directly at us – something remarkable in its rarity in our most prestigious art galleries – as if to defy and befriend the viewer simultaneously. Only one, Jo, looks away, considering a smooth stone in her hands, and the way in which this links to her very visceral description of the material, physical effect of words, as if powerful enough to leap into and alter landscapes, is rather special. Jo is an artist, her medium is stone.
T i r z a h
Modern Women Artists
In 2022 I created illustrated portraits of artist Eileen Mayo (book 8) potter Lucie Rie (book 9) and artist Tirzah Garwood (book 10) for Eiderdown Books . Eiderdown Books is an independent publisher making books about Modern Women Artists written by leading female writers, art historians and cultural commentators.
Women & Word
Female writers and literary characters feature in this portrait series. Link to an interview with me during the exhibition of this work at Weald Contemporary in October 2023 below.
Women & Word portrait series no. 3
In this portrait series I invited writers, poets, a stone carver, zine maker, journalists, poets, a teacher, a lecturer and a curator to write about their connections to word. I drew a portrait of each sitter whilst considering their writing; the portraits and written pieces were exhibited and produced in a book.
People & Plants portrait series no. 2
This portrait series was on show at Oxmarket Contemporary in April 2022.
Each very generous sitter shared their relationship to plants, from formative experiences to their current involvement and passion for plants in a written piece which was displayed beside each portrait.
Women & Water portrait series no. 1
This series of portraits focuses on 13 wonderful women: artists, wild swimmer, mudlarks, art historian, publisher, writers, actress, teacher, mothers, craftivist, ceramicist. Each sitter has contributed a written piece about their particular experience of water to accompany their portrait.
Artist Spotlight
Interview with Manderley Press
Is the house in Sea II inspired by an actual building or place?
I have very happy childhood memories of family holidays on the Devon and Cornwall coast; although not an actual building or place, the scene perhaps represents those places.