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Ellen Hardy

HARDY HOUSE

www.HardyHouse.us

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Artist (Senior)
First Name
Ellen
Last name
Hardy
Business/Organization Name
HARDY HOUSE
 

Personal information

Directory listing text
Artist, photographer, designer.

CEO of Hardy House a publishing firm specializing in museum quality work for historical societies, museums, and individuals. The firm also handles communication arts such as: graphic design, photography and digital video editing.
 

Artist Info

Medium / Media
  • Painting / Drawing
  • Mixed Media / Assemblage
  • Photography
  • Fiber
  • Film
Artist Bio or Résumé
Ellen Hardy has made her living as a graphic designer and photographer but has always maintained a studio to oil paint. Hardy pursued her love of the arts at Garland Junior College (whose records are now with Simmons College) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The theme of her work started with freedom—and how important that is for a woman, an American and as a human. To represent freedom she has always had a connection to birds, the sky, and the panorama landscape. Wide open spaces, peaceful landscapes, big and interesting skies have occupied her energy in both photography and oil painting.
Primarily a painter Hardy has done substantial work in photography, including “color photograms” as well as high-quality black and white silver prints taken with an antique camera. Her recent exploration delves into the nexus of where earth meets the sky, the sky being a recurrent theme in her work. Having spent a great deal of time in scouting she has brought nature into much of her work. Her painting could be classified, as transcendental abstraction with an emphasis on creating that moment in nature where all you can do is “exhale” to take in the wonder of the moment. To have mindfulness is to be in the present and to see her night sky paintings with shooting stars brings you there. And she has always felt connected to the aurora borealis (her first art prize at the age of 9) and its wonder in the night sky. Her largest body of work to date is about the auroras and the night sky.
Artist Statement
“While we stayed fixed on the earth and we look to the sky it reminds us how fast we are actually moving and how quickly a moment passes. The sky is nature’s best film and through my painting I try to capture its beauty.” — Ellen Hardy
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