"Harriett Rex Smith paints lush watercolors, often juxtaposing tangible momentary pleasures of everyday life with the deep dark celestial mysteries of the night sky. While we feel and enjoy a variety of scenes and objects, from flowers to fir trees to antique machinery, we also ponder the vastness of the star sprinkled space that surrounds her reality, and to which we must all surrender."

Quote from
Betty La Duke,
Ashland Artist

Harriett lives on a mountain near Ashland, Oregon, where she designed and built a studio. She specializes in large scale watercolors which reflect her views on the Universe, and in textured acrylics which capture the light of landscapes.

Trained in the Midwest, she earned degrees from Indiana University and Notre Dame. She taught at several universities and art centers before moving to Oregon and freeing herself from the prevailing fashion in art. She prefers to be non-competitive, and paints exactly as she pleases. Her work is in several major collections, and much of it can be seen at her studio.

Many of her works are available in prints. These are not posters, but high quality digital reproductions (sometimes called Giclée) which are as enduring as the originals.