Biography
"My palette is informed and inspired by light and shadow, the earth, the body and afterimages."

Scottish-born artist Gwen Hardie lives and works in New York City. Viewing the canvas as more than a flat surface, she transforms its shape into a three-dimensional illusion. Through seamless gradients of tone and saturation, Hardie balances one color against another, creating radiant foregrounds that seem to hover and glow. Her work explores the interplay of color, light, and shadow in nature, particularly the dynamic interaction between warm and cool tones to evoke varying depths of field.

 

Hardie’s work is held in prestigious private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Council in London, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Modern Collection in Lisbon.

Works
  • Gwen Hardie, 05.03.22, dark red on warm green, 2022
    05.03.22, dark red on warm green, 2022
  • Gwen Hardie, 04.21.23, pale lavender on warm umber, 2023
    04.21.23, pale lavender on warm umber, 2023
  • Gwen Hardie, 04.15.20 brown on indanthrone blue-grey, 2020
    04.15.20 brown on indanthrone blue-grey, 2020
  • radiant-pink-on-pale-grey
    05.17.21, radiant pink on pale grey, 2021
  • Gwen Hardie, 11.19.21, pale pink on raw umber, 2021
    11.19.21, pale pink on raw umber, 2021
Exhibitions