Gregory Hardy celebrates the beauty of nature uniquely with his moody, wide open skies.
Hardy is a nationally-renowned landscape painter associated with the school of Western Canadian landscape painters focused on the Canadian prairies as well as Northern Saskatchewan, on the edge of the Canadian Shield.
Hardy’s use of metallic pigments adds an ethereal quality to his paintings, capturing the dynamic and ever-changing essence of the Canadian landscape.
Hardy begins his process by creating sketches in the wilderness or from the vantage point of his kayak and canoe. The sketches are used in his studio to recall a specific location, weather and time of day. He then interprets this memory using colour and light.
A previous Art Junkie post on Gregory Hardy, here.
Gregory Hardy on exhibition at Peter Robertson gallery, here. (through May 8)
His website, here.
NOTE: Hardy is part of a group exhibition through May 8 at Peter Robertson gallery in Edmonton, an exploration of the Canadian landscape through the innovative lenses of contemporary artists. The other artists – Steve Driscoll, Gavin Lynch & David Thauberger – have all been featured on Canadian Art Junkie in the past. See the Peter Robertson gallery exhibition page, here.
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This is wonderful! The clouds really do boil up like that, in that huge prairie skies
That’s a great description – boil up. Unique to the prairies.
These are fantastic. Interesting that he uses metallic pigments too.
I have seen his works close up quite a few times and for the life of me, I can’t see anything “metallic,” even after the gallerist explained it to me (twice). This is one of those times when I know I absolutely love the work, so it doesn’t really matter if I can complete the loop. Thanks for weighing in on this.
Yeah, he may be mixing them in in a way that just changes the reflective quality of the other pigments subtly. In any case, like you say, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the paintings look fantastic. 🙂