Career
Mead’s work is inspired by animals and birds. Harriet uses personal experience and direct observation to provide inspiration for her work. The countryside and wildlife around her home in rural Norfolk and her travels to various places around the world, including Asia and Africa, provide subject matter for her work.
In 2004, she was elected to Council of the SWLA. In 2009, she was elected as the Society"s President, making her the youngest and first woman in its 47 year history.
Harriet recognizes that an appreciation of wildlife and the natural world cannot be taken for granted and she has used her art to promote and raise funds for conservation and animal charities. Most notably amongst the organizations she has supported are The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Countryside Education Foundation and the Suffolk Horse Society.
Together with other leading international wildlife artists Harriet has taken part in two Artists for Nature Foundation projects, which bring artists together to promote and raise funds for conservation projects around the world, including the Great Fen Project in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom and the Hula Valley, Israel. Harriet has produced two large-scale public art pieces.
One is the Suffolk Trinity which includes a life-size Suffolk Punch horse, a Suffolk Ram and a Suffolk Redpoll Bulletin providing an impressive feature at the entrance of Trinity Park (the Suffolk show ground), near Ipswich.
The other is a life-size heavy horse being led by a man at Dromore, West Tyrone, Northern Ireland.