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
  • 05.03.22, dark red on warm green
    05.03.22, dark red on warm green
  • 11.19.21, pale pink on raw umber
    11.19.21, pale pink on raw umber
  • 04.26.19, cool pink on greenish grey
    04.26.19, cool pink on greenish grey
  • 04.21.23, pale lavender on warm umber
    04.21.23, pale lavender on warm umber
  • 04.15.20 brown on indanthrone blue-grey
    04.15.20 brown on indanthrone blue-grey
  • radiant-pink-on-pale-grey
    05.17.21, radiant pink on pale grey
Exhibitions