Artist
David Hardy
David Hardy is a multidisciplinary artist based in West Wales, creating artworks from the base of the Cambrian Mountains. He studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and after graduating moved to London where his work spanned graphic design, photography and painting. David has exhibited internationally.
After working at Royal Society of Arts and London College of Fashion as resident graphic designer David moved to Hastings to focus on his photography and painting.
David's Style
Now working and living in Wales, David takes inspiration from his surrounding landscapes. His work focuses on composition and arrangement of colour in a subtle, reductive and minimal way that draws inspiration from the natural landscape and organic forms.
Married to fellow Partnership Editions artist, Lisa Hardy - the two are influenced by each other as much as the natural landscape of the Welsh countryside and the elements that shape it.
"My work is a record of pure engagement with colour and the material qualities of paint and surface. The work focuses on composition and arrangement of colour in a reductive, subtle minimal way, inspired by the natural landscape." - David Hardy
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Drop 5 - Winter 2022
"My work isn’t documentative, I paint to represent a feeling or capture an atmosphere or create atmosphere. What I don’t want is to simply create another view of an existing place. The aim is to create a feeling that resonates with the viewer, what ever that may be." - David Hardy, Faded Days
Drop 4 - Autumn 2022
"These paintings are inspired by spending time in the Cambrian Mountains. They invoke in me the same feeling as when in the landscape. I get to relive the energy I felt standing within the misty valley, surrounded by expansive skies, distant views, sprawling moor lands, feeling the wind rush past me. They act as a means of connecting me to the land that I paint." - David Hardy, In the Landscape
Drop 2 - Summer 2022
"'Delicate Landscape' focuses on the interplay of land & sky through deep tones & hues, evoking a sense of peace and contemplative moments." - David Hardy, Delicate Landscape
Drop 1 - New Year 2022
"The landscape kept changing, turning in and out but refusing to pause. Leaving me with remnants, hints of forms, like distant memories of what was no longer." - David Hardy, Suggested Landscapes
In The Flesh
This curation is on show at our exhibition 'In The Flesh'. It was on display at 105 Pimlico Road, SW1W 8NQ from 25th November to 19th December 2021.
This will be the first time that the artists of Partnership Editions have come together in a physical space since lockdown has lifted, and it celebrates the very fact that we're able to see their works in person again.
We embrace the many purposes of an exhibition: a way to unite artists and collectors, and an opportunity to engage with both people and art - something we've all been deprived of for too long.
The works in this exhibition have been selected based on their exceptional skill and power to communicate. See their colours, their textures, experience their emotions, let them get under your skin...in the flesh.
Drop 6 - Winter 2021
"A beautiful morning drenched in a heavy mist that lifts to reveal a bright crisp day. Dark indigo nights that are rich in tone and deep in texture, these are the things that inspire me." - David Hardy, Winter
Drop 5 - Autumn 2021
"This new series of oil on paper works I wanted to capture the moment that dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before night. Beyond its physical beauty, there is also a metaphorical beauty in dusk, symbolising the completion of the day and the passage of time. What I find so inspiring about this period is the rich depth of tone, often referred to as 'Blue Hour’." - David Hardy, Last Light
Drop 4 - High Summer 2021
"Drawing inspiration from the natural movement of air creates a rhythm that resonates with me. This then produces a physical process of creating an arrangement of tones, textures & marks. The work uses a minimal palette of greys, that contrast with the natural linen surface which in turn creates a tension between the viewer & the subject." - David Hardy, Painting The Wind
Drop 3 - Summer 2021
“Continuing to draw inspiration from the atmospheric perspective of the natural landscape. This collection explores the wind, a force of nature that cannot be seen, often evoking a sense of unease and drama.” - David Hardy, Wind
Drop 2 - Spring 2021
"I’ve always been fascinated by the fine mist of the night as it draws in. There’s something quite special about the feeling of dusk, shapes and forms take on other meanings. A moment in which light and dark touch for a few moments." - David Hardy, Winter Light
Drop 1 - New Year 2021
"Capturing the wind, a force of nature that cannot be seen, is a challenge when working in a two-dimensional medium." - David Hardy, Grey Days
Drop 5 - Winter 2020
"When surrounded by a landscape this creates a connection that I then try to rediscover in the studio. I explore places that are far off the beaten track, and revel in the exposure to the huge expansive skies, shifting light, bleak moorlands and dense forests, this sense of isolation increases the sensation. It’s my aim to find a range of visual references, as opposed to depicting a place." - David Hardy, High Ground Series
Partnership Editions x MADE
We are thrilled to present our new collaboration with the leading online design and homeware brand MADE.COM on a line of exclusive limited edition prints, as well as a collection of original artworks that the prints were created from - available below.
Work by six Partnership Editions artists are included in the collection stretching from figurative to abstract, architectural to watercolours. David Hardy has created three exclusive abstract Giclee prints in editions of 50. The framed works will be available from MADE.COM and will come framed with a certificate from the artist, and the original artworks are available exclusively via us, below.
Winter Limited Edition Prints
Drop 4 - Autumn 2020
“The oval has been a recurring form in my painting – simple, not self-intersecting, slightly elongated alongside more arbitrary marks & shapes. The works are an emotional response to the medium of paint, the watery nature of oils capture energy & movement. By using a restrained colour palette, relying on slight differences in tone and paint application to create depth and layers in the work.” - David Hardy, Ovals - Series I
Drop 3 - High Summer 2020
"As an artist I’ve always used shades of blue in my work. Ultramarine, cobalt, indigo, navy, Klein, every shade holds an interest & has a world of meaning. Blue represents depth, stability, faith & serenity. Blue has more complex and contradictory meanings than any other colour, one of which symbolises a certain melancholy ‘feeling blue’. " - David Hardy, Views from the Barn
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today…
Joni Mitchell, “Hejira”, 1976
