Harriet Orrey-Godden is a artist based in Glasgow, currently working in painting and illustration. Harriet has been a prolific artist from a young age, passionate about visual and applied arts throughout her life and education. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Art and Design from Bradford College in 2003, specializing in illustration and printmaking, expanding into theatrical costume design as her final year project. She went on to set up a textile business in 2008, creating a range of creepy art dolls and puppets, which she sold online, at craft Markets and from her shop-studio in Manchester craft and design centre. Harriet’s weird and wonderful dolls found their way into the hearts of international audiences when she secured a contract with the Australian childhood foundation in 2011, which saw Harriet designing and making 600 sensory dolls for use with children in therapy session across Australia. Based on Harriet’s designs, the ACF went on create a program of bespoke sensory therapy. As well as making dolls, Harriet is an art workshop facilitator, providing lessons for children and adults on a range of specialisms including puppet making and sculpture.

Harriet’s illustrations have been exhibited in the UK and Europe. In 2004 she was selected for ‘The fabulous Coloured pencils of the world’ a showcase of female illustrators from around the world, which exhibited in Venice, Rome and Naples. She now illustrates her own range of greetings cards, which sell on Etsy and in retail shops across the UK, including the Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh. In 2019 Harriet moved to Glasgow to study a Masters at Glasgow School of Art, and turned her focus to painting. She has spent the last few years exploring oil paints, and developing a new body of work.