Harriet Sussman is an artist studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. She’s working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. She first studied for 2 years in Maryland Institute College of Art in the Illustration department before joining the Rhode Island School of Design, and she’s now in her senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her current focuses include botanical illustration, gouache illustration, and surface design, and children's books. She likes all types of flowers, obscenely large leaves, orderly drawings and cluttered desks. She now works as a freelance artist at Wild Apple Graphics based in Needham Heights, Massachusetts. Some of her skills include Research, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Color Theory, Color Matching, Repeat Pattern, Surface Pattern Design, Watercolor, Gouache, Painting and Illustration.
She’s worked as Artist Assistant at Cynthia Maurice Studio; Design Associate at Brewster Home Fashions; Studio Design Intern at Brewster Home Fashions; Sales Associate and Urban Outfitters; and Summer Studio Intern at Wild Apple Graphics. Harriet takes a traditional approach to render what she sees. She believes that self-expression is of value to her as craftsmanship in what she’s creating. The artist has always found inspiration for her art from her travels and she’s always on the lookout for special sense of places that infuse some areas of the natural world with beauty, wonder and meaning. While she’s always striving for better and new ways to produce her art, she’s not trying to come up with anything new and she feels it is an illusion to assume that every artist believes so.
