Harriet Barber

Harriet Nell Barber (3 June 1968 – 16 July 2014)

In 1996, she won the £1,000 student award in the NatWest 90s Prize For Art for a depiction of female bathers at Hampstead Pond.

She was selected along with Ivy Smith for the first Jerwood Art Commissions in 2000 for two paintings for the Chamber of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Her painting, Children at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, was used as the cover image for the BMJ journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood.

In 2008, she set up her own art business for her paintings, and one month later was diagnosed with breast cancer, from which she recovered after months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

In 2009, she was selected as a finalist for the Barclays Trading Places Awards, which honour those who have started a business while facing personal adversity.

Cathy Lomax said of Barber's seascapes executed in oil on board:Barber's paintings are refreshingly raw, colour piled on in an effort to summon up the emotion of the place rather than worrying to much about accuracies. They have an endearing hint of the naïve about them

Personal life Barber was married with two children and lived in Dorset,