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"Storm Coming In From the North"

Greg Hardy, "Storm Coming In From the North," 2013, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 54".

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"July 2012"

Greg Hardy, "July 2012," 2013, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48".

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"Clouds and the Road Home"

Greg Hardy, "Clouds and the Road Home," 2013, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 36”.

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"Storm Watching"

Greg Hardy, "Storm Watching," 2012, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 80”.

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GREG HARDY - Collector's Pick

By Maureen Latta

When Greg Hardy talks about expressing his emotional reaction to the land through the materiality of paint and canvas, he’s not referring to mere sentiment. For Hardy, prairie marshlands, hills and skies are stage sets for blood-boiling dramas evoking awe, wonder and melancholy. Billowing clouds are often the central players – ecstatic sculptural formations of invented colour that enter and exit voluminous skies.

“I’m trying to turbo-charge the paintings with as much emotion and original feeling that I had,” says the Saskatoon-based artist. His response to dramatic light, storms and seasonal changes mirrors the vitality of his interior world. “I live life fairly intensely,” he says. “There’s a certain beauty in that kind of inner turmoil. I find that by using paint and making paintings, it comes out in the work, somehow, in an indirect way.”

Hardy, who mentions an interest in the Spanish Romantic, Francisco de Goya, is a physical painter who favours fat chunks of charcoal, four-inch brushes and plenty of tar gel. He makes reference sketches out on the land or from a kayak at his Lac la Ronge cabin then quickly works up paintings while his memory is fresh. “My ideal is when I start the painting and it’s finished in one go. There’s very little hesitation until the end.”

Greg Hardy’s next show is in spring at the Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton. He is also represented by Gallery Jones in Vancouver, Art Placement Inc. in Saskatoon and Wallace Galleries in Calgary. His work is priced at $5,000 to $15,000.