Harriet Ermentrout is best known for her work in watercolor, though she also painted in pastels and oils and did pen and pencil sketches. As a student at the Moore Institute of Art, she specializes in interior design. Ermentrout studied painting with Bucks County painter Roy Nuse, watercolorist John Pike in Woodstock, New York and Ed Whitney.
She is especially known for her paintings of historic homes, rustic buildings, and Bucks County landscapes. An avid traveler, Ermentrout has painted the New England coastline, the Virgin Islands, English gardens and Greek Islands. On her first trip to Paris, she started sketching, and those sketches inform her larger paintings. Ermentrout has had over 33 one-person shows and has exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Sketch Club and at the Coryell Gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey, among others.
