Featured Artist - Katharine Le Hardy

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A selection of Katharine's most recent work will be on display in our summer show from 5th July through to 29th August 2012. 

Artist Statement

'The Cornish coast is the starting point for my landscapes which are only loosely based on definite locations. Working from sketches and photographs, I endeavour to create a window on an imaginary coastal space. The absence of obvious landmarks and identifiable features enables the images to exist as timeless, dreamlike expanses where sea meets land, inviting the viewer into a restorative space and opportunity for reflection in calm solitude.

Even though the beach usually constitutes the largest area in my paintings, I consider them more as seascapes than landscapes, as the central aspect to all of my images is the action and nature of the sea: both as a symbol for the passage of time and agent of change, and also as an icon for tranquillity and emotional depth, all of which is resonant with the ebb and flow of everyday human life. In a way, my painting process mimics the sea in this respect - I like to use gestural marks and loose brushwork to engage the viewer and charge the composition with movement and dynamism, whilst still maintaining balance, building up the paint and alternating transparent and opaque layers, dripping, washing, splashing, allowing it to take its own fluid course and give the image a life of its own.'

To see more of Katharine's work please click here.