Lisa Hardy is a fine artist living in Wales, taking inspiration from nature and the natural surroundings of her local countryside. Lisa captures and abstracts the essence of her environment with a lightness of touch using a mix of watercolour, pencil and pastel.
Lisa has a skill for combining beautiful colour pairings with minimalist mark-making, creating organic abstractions that capture the essence of different seasons, scents, memories and flora and fauna that we associate with the countryside. Her work has a soothing and calming effect on the viewer, allowing us to each call to mind a different experience or mood brought about by colours and plants. Lisa Hardy studied at Winchester School of Art achieving a first class honours degree in Fine Art Textiles.
After moving to London Lisa began a career in fashion where she worked as a PR Director for top luxury brands. After 15 years in London Lisa and her husband moved to Hastings to tap back into their creativity and where the countryside and gardens in East Sussex inspired much of Lisa’s work. Now living in a converted barn in West Wales, she responds to the diverse beauty in all flora with her unique emotive style of painting and drawing.
"The diverse landscape and beauty that surrounds me here in Wales is a constant inspiration. My work aims to capture a feeling, conveyed with loose, expressive, mark making. The work is largely driven by intuition; often I have no plan but just see where the process takes me." - Lisa Hardy
Drop 5 - Winter 2020
"The collection is guided by intuition and imagination. Loose watercolour marks create subtle abstractions of flowers which resound with the echo of classic botanical paintings and the organic world". - Lisa Hardy, Flora
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. Lisa Hardy has created three exclusive floral 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.
"Being an introvert I enjoy being quiet and contemplative. Painting is a way to take time for myself and to find that space. With this series I wanted to convey a certain stillness with a light touch. The paintings are as always inspired by nature, observing first then painting freely from memory." - Lisa Hardy, Quiet Paintings
"Witnessing the rhythm of nature connects me to my own self, which I transform into a source of creativity. I paint both real and imagined forms. Fragments and shapes from our garden appear. The space allows for thought and contemplation." - Lisa Hardy, Forms
"This series continues on from ‘Compositions of Spring’ and moves to a promise of summer… and hope. The garden is my sanctuary and where I find solace. It’s a daily ritual to inspect the garden and as I am, noticing all the little things; forget-me-nots, cowslips, primroses, ferns, buttercups and imagined blooms inside." - Lisa Hardy