Stephanie Eggleston Harrover Biography Stephanie Harrover grew up in the Mississippi Delta, whose flat farmland and rich skies have had a profound influence on her landscape painting. She works in acrylics, often incorporating mixed media to create interesting and unusual textures in her imaginative and evocative paintings. Most of her work is based on nature, “not realistic but more of a fantasized memory,” she explains. Her works combine rich, harmonious colors, emphasizing the isolated trees, houses, and churches she remembers from her childhood. She and her brother, internationally known photographer William Eggleston, grew up on their family’s plantation twelve miles from the nearest town. Perhaps because of the isolation of the country, Stephanie and her brother turned to creative endeavors early in their childhood. The family spent winters in Sarasota, Florida, where the artistic culture of the city, in contrast to the rural Delta, greatly influenced their appreciation of the arts. “In Sarasota I experienced my first live performances of ballet and symphonic music, and visited the Ringling Museum and other art galleries in the city. This was very different from the Delta.” Her first endeavors in art were in photography. For many years she specialized in creating in-depth portraits of children in black and white, sometimes tinting the photographs sepia. After exploring photography for a number of years, she forayed into painting, where she found her “true calling.” Since she draws her inspiration from the world of nature, most of her paintings are discernible landscapes, but she also abstracts her memories into compositions of stylized patterns of line, color and texture. Her belief in the joy of life as well as principles of balance and harmony are evidenced in her work.