Katharine Le Hardy has long been admired for her landscape painting. During the early months of 2020, with access to the physical world restricted, she started painting children at play, at a time when her children were home. Partially induced by memory and nostalgia this series triggered a new enquiry, an investigation into the space between the real, the past, the lost and the hopeful. In this latest series the landscape has returned. The figure has become almost fleeting, the human is suggested but is less and less emphatic. The scapes are vast and strong and emphasise the permanence of the land, the figure has become an outline, as if passing through is all that humanity will ever do amidst the wonder of nature and the majesty of the land. There was an optimistic playfulness to the 2020/21 works, their dreamlike quality emphasised by the use of a clean bright sugary palette. This remains in these new works. These paintings feel nostalgic and fantastical and yet strong and assertive in equal parts.
Candida Stevens, April 2022

Education:
2000 – 2003 | BA (Hons) Fine Art University of the West of England, Bristol |
1999 – 2000 | Foundation Course University of the West of England, Bristol |
Exhibitions:
2022 | London Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery |
2021 | London Art Fair 'EDIT: PLATFORM' Candida Stevens Gallery |
Solo Show, 'If Wishes Were Horses' Candida Stevens Gallery | |
2019 | 'Dog Days' Northcote Gallery, London |
2018 | Joint Exhibition, Northcote Gallery, London |
"Fields Notes" Joint Exhibition, One Paved Court, Richmond, London | |
Solo Show, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Sussex | |
2016 | Solo Show, Northcote Gallery, London |
2015 | Solo Show, Northcote Gallery, London |
2014 | London Art Fair: Envie d'art, Islington, London |
Solo show, Northcote Gallery, King's Road, London | |
AAF Hong Kong, Envie d'Art, London | |
2013 | 'Let me introduce...', Updown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent |
Solo Show, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, Sussex | |
Solo Show, Updown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent | |
2012 | Solo Show: Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London |
Gilchrist Fisher 21st Anniversary Exhibition: Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London | |
Affordable Art Fair: Cricket Fine Art, Battersea Park, London | |
2011 | Solo Show: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex |
Summer Show: Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London | |
Under a Grand: Grandy Art, London | |
2009 | Solo Show: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex |
Solo Show: Advocate Galleries, Wimbledon Village, London | |
Solo Show: Smithfield Gallery, London | |
2008 | Solo Show, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex |
'Lay of the Land' Chapel Row Gallery, Bath |