Harriet Freidfield

Harriet Freidfield was born in 1949 in Port Alberni. She studied painting at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary from 1967 to 1970, and then attended the John Harron School of Art at Indiana University from 1970 to 1972 from which she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. At Indiana University she earned the Wolcott Award for Excellence in 1971. After graduation, she lived for a while in Montreal where she set up her studio and began showing her painterly and expressionist oil compositions of figures in interiors. Regarding these, the Montreal reviewer, Henry Lehnann, noted the “obsessive, convulsive contours” of her imagery, and said that “Freifield's work in strong and emotionally convincing – we believe her art.”

Harriet Freidfield's paintings were featured in numerous exhibitions, including the First Saidye Bronfman Centre for Quebec Artists in 1997 and solo exhibitions at Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal in 1976 and 1978. She is represented in several public and private collections in Calgary, Montreal and the US.