Harriet Merry

Harriet is an artist and printmaker based in the Midlands, whose practice grew from a desire to expand on themes emerging from her daily observational drawings. She has always been drawn to the immediacy of artists’ sketches over finished paintings and continually explores how to preserve that sense of spontaneity while developing her sketchbook studies into more resolved works. Her prints often investigate the tension between movement and stillness, and the ways in which repeated motifs can transform into fresh interpretations and narratives.

Working primarily with drypoint, etching and more recently screen-printing and rubber-stamping, she was made a member of the Society of Women Artists in 2025. Her prints have also been displayed in major exhibitions all over the UK and she is currently writing a graphic novel about the environment, using tetrapak prints, which was long-listed for the First Graphic Novel Award in 2025.

Winner of the Foxlowe Arts Centre Award (2023)
Winner of the Quinta del Sordo Gallery Award (2024)