Artist's Bio
Ann Hardy is living life as fully and well as she knows how. For Ann, the joy of painting is in the process (journey) and not the destination. Growth in life and art is the most exciting thing she can think of. Her philosophy is to keep moving, but not in the direction that fear makes you move. You must be willing to risk and be at home in your own skin. For her it's fun to be slightly?? eccentric. (And she plays that to the hilt) by painting in a 12 by 12 foot tree house, and the following:
* She has cooked for 6 others on a 51 ft. sailboat in the Grenedine Islands
* She drove a van of 8 women artists (on an art workshop) in Guatemala
* She backpacked through Scotland and England
* She rode up the Tetons on horseback from Jackson, WY, tenting for a week
* She rode a 20 year old mule around Texas following a wagon train for two.
* She went backpacking with her daughter in the Rockies for several days.
* She went painting and drawing in Bali, Italy, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, France, and Greece
* She participated in Habitat for Humanity in Belize
* She went King Salmon fishing in Sitka, Alaska
and the most precarious of all -- deciding to earn her livelihood as an artist with a history of only 4 years of oil painting (1969 - 1973) and not painting again until starting water-media in 1993.
She is published in 7 books: International Artist's Magazine, American Artist, Watercolor Magic, Panache, Western Art Collector, Living, and Country Lifestyle Magazines.
Galleries are: Whistle Pik Galleries in Fredericksburg, Texas; Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas, Silvana Gallery in Glendale, California; Miller's Fine Art in Salado, Texas, Vickery Gallery in Downer's Grove, Illinois.
Artist's Statement
I just want to paint something that resonates with a few viewers. I want to leave something behind that makes the world a bit lovlier. This is as honest as I can be.
For more information about Ann Hardy and her work, visit her website at
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