Katharine Le Hardy
Current CollectionLandscape has always been a starting point for me, a visual trigger for inspiration. Working from photographs, sketches and memory, each painting evolves in an unpredictable way, through the addition and removal of paint and the spontaneous reactions to accidental marks. 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.
2014
Northcote Gallery, Chelsea.
Wimbledon Open Studios
Art14, Olympia: Updown Gallery, Kent
2013
Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, Sussex
‘Let me Introduce…..’ Updown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent
2012
Solo Show: Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London
21st Gilchrist Fisher Award, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2011
Solo Show: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, Sussex
2010
Solo Show: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, Sussex
Solo Show: Lisa Norris Art, London
Summer Show, Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London
2009
Solo Show: Advocate Galleries, Wimbledon Village, London
Summer Show: Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London
Solo Show: Smithfield Gallery, London
Solo Show: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex
2008
Affordable Art Fair: Cobalt Fine Art, Battersea Park, London
Under a Grand: Grandy Art, Lennox Gallery, Fulham, London
Advocate Galleries, Wimbledon, London
Summer Reflections: Foss Fine Art, Clapham, London
Lay of the Land: Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
Summer Show: Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London