The copper is rich with time and the beautiful flowers are rich with layers of lavender and pink accents against a dark background in this exquisite still life oil painting. "Painting is a 12 x 16 oil on Belgium 600 Linen Damvar, unframed."
Ann Hardy has won award after award for her beautiful paintings and after Janice Gauntt saw this piece in Ann's Tree House Studio, there was no question that she would purchase it for Constituting America's 2017 Summer Auction!
Thank you Ann Hardy and Janice Gauntt for making our auction even more special!
Ann Hardy can be reached at: www.annhardy.com or at 817-481-4007
"I am a representational, sometimes quite impressionistic painter, who loves the privilege of getting to express myself visually through a painting."
"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. 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 treehouse, and the following: She has cooked for 6 others on a 51 ft. sailboat in the Grenedine Islands, drove a van of 8 women artists in Guatemala, backpacking Scotland and England, rode up the Tetons horseback from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, tenting for a week, rode a 20 year old mule around Texas following a wagon train for 2 weeks, backpacking with daughter in the Rockies for several days, painting and drawing in Bali, Italy, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, France (Paris), Greece, France (Chateau du Soudin), Habitat for Humanity in Belise, King Salmon fishing in Sitka, Alaska, painting in Argentina, and the most precarious of all---decided to earn her livelihood as an artist."
From Ann Hardy's Wise and Delightful Blog:
It's taken a lot of years to enumerate some things of importance to me. Maybe I've known them all along, and I am just now putting them into words. Or, maybe maturity is settling in. I do know that I feel very comfortable with myself and I am not living by the standards of others, but by my own standards. And, I have been a pleaser.
These things I want for my children and my grandchildren.
:
Choose on your own to live by YOUR CHOICE (thoughtful choice) and
not CHANCE.
Choose to be USEFUL and
not USED.
Choose to be MOTIVATED and
not MANIPULATED.
Choose to be HAPPY and
not SAD. (Happiness
is a choice)
Just did this wonderful old Coon dog that has shared 15 years with his Master and Best Buddy. The Father of the 30+ year old Son that owns this dear animal had me do the painting as a Birthday surprise. It was a fun project. Does he not look like a sweetheart!
SIGNATURE MEMBERSHIPS
Oil Painters of America Signature Member
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Signature Member
Outdoor Painters Society Master Signature Member
Texas and Neighbors Signature Member
Accredited Creative Artists
Southwestern Watercolor Society
American Impressionist Signature Member
RECENT AWARDS:
2015
Oil Painters of America critique done.
Richeson National Small Works-painting
Facebook-3 paintings in 3 days
Bosque Natonal Classic-painting accepted
American Impressionist National Show-Painting accepted and Signature Member achieved
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society-Painting accepted
Bluebonnet Cemetery One Person Show titled "Paintings for the Living". Good sale.
2016
Texas and Neighbors (5 state competition)-juror, Soon Warren-Won 2nd in Oils
Judged National Oil and Acrylic Online Spring Show
Judged Trinity Arts Guild Open Show
National Spirit of Texas OPOMAC-juror, Donna Howell Sickles, painting accepted
Richardson 50th at the Eisemann Center-juror, Michael Holter, painting accepted
FWCAC "Out For the Summer Vacation"-juror, Nancy Lamb, painting accepted
Outdoor Painters Society-4 paintings accepted and 4 sold
Program for Grapevine Art Project with David Morgan
Master Signature Member-Outdoor Painters Society
Signature Member Status-American Impressionist Socieety
An Evening in Seville-only painter to have demo and exhibition on site of 1 Paigebrook (1938 Dealy home, architect, Dilbeck)
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
February 2015-Richardson Small Painting show (Wisconsin)-painting accepted
April 2015-Nat Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Online Show-2 paintings accepted
July 2015-Tarleton University One Person Show-Gordon House Gallery, Granbury, Texas
August 2015-Grapevine Tower Gallery Show
November 2015-Bluebonnet Cemetery "Paintings for the Living""
