Doris Harpers was born in Germany and has lived in Italy since 1978. She studied painting at the Alanus Academy in Germany with Wilfried Ogilvie and art therapy at the “De Wervel” school in the Netherlands with Eva Mees. Since then, she has sought to create connections between different forms of art, often drawing inspiration from poetry or musical pieces and complementing her exhibitions with concerts and recitations. She teaches painting and drawing at the Libera Accademia Aldo Bargero in Oriago (Venice), at the Steiner Pedagogy Seminar, and at the “Tiziano” School of Painting, which she founded. She has developed a painting training method, and her former students now work in various cities across Italy and Croatia, where she taught for seven years.

For three years, she focused on the theme of the ROSE, drawing inspiration from poems in different languages. In 2020, she began a new project called SOL SOLIS, featuring paintings inspired by poems about the sun. This project culminated in a book, published in 2022 by Pleroma.

Doris Harpers has organized exhibitions in several European countries and held workshops in Mexico and Egypt. She has frequently collaborated in international conferences organized by the Section for Visual Arts at the Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland) and Idriart (Institute for the Development of Intercultural Relations through the Arts). She is also involved in the exhibitions of the New Renaissance, an initiative founded by Davide Foschi, who organizes festivals in various cities across Italy. At the 7th edition of the New Renaissance Festival, “Nel mezzo del Cammin…tra guerra e pace”, she was honored with the Career Award from the Quality Jury.
Her solo exhibition at Villa Widmann in Mira (VE) in March 2023 was a great success. She is currently among the permanent artists at the Leonardo da Vinci Center – Art Expo. Reproductions of her works can be found in books, calendars, magazines, and postcards.