Portrait of Harper Leighton

Artist

Harper Leighton

4.89 (378)

Asheville, NC · Impressionism · 8 years active · 55 artworks

“Moving to North Carolina's mountains in 2019 after years styling food in sterile studios made me crave natural light and honest color. I found myself sketching the Blue Ridge peaks between coffee shop shifts, then spending entire weekends with oils trying to catch how morning mist changes everything.”
Signature palette
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About Harper

Harper Leighton works from Asheville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where she moved in 2019 after years as a food stylist. Leaving studio lights behind gave her a taste for natural light and honest color, and for the way morning mist reshapes a landscape.

Her style is impressionist with a cinematic, film-like mood. Her subjects range from mountain valleys and autumn forests to city skylines and busy street markets. Below are her best-selling canvases in our shop, each printed on matte canvas, stretched over solid wood and ready to hang.

Based in
Asheville, NC
Style
Impressionism
Background
Former food stylist
Education
BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art
Fun fact
Always paints barefoot, even in winter

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