Biography

Her parents said she was drawing people before she could speak. Drawing skill has provided a foundation for her elegant oil painting compositions.

After traveling Europe and all around the Mediterranean studying art and history, she went to the Art Institute of Florence, Italy, to learn classical oil painting techniques.

She paints from life, daily, studying color relationships. Each painting is an experiment, filtering what she sees into patterns of lights and darks, warm and cool colors, and opaque and transparent glazes. She loves the atmospheric effect of varying her brushwork with soft and crisp edges. The rich buttery feel of oil colors continues to inspire her, but occasionally she will also use pastels or charcoal.

Claire Hardy exhibits her work in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as well as in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Education


Art Institute of Florence, Italy
Oil Painting, Watercolor Painting, and Sculpture
Study Abroad Summer Programs


University of New Mexico
Graphic and Multimedia Design Certificate

Watercolor Painting, Chinese Brush Painting,
Abstract Painting, Gesture Drawing

B.B.A., Business Mgt. - Entrepreneurial Studies

 

Select Exhibitions

Solo Show Recent Works
Canyon Road Fine Art
Santa Fe, NM, July 2009

Solo Show, Sunsets
Sewickley Gallery & Frame Shop
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, June 2009

Floral Paintings
Canyon Road Fine Art
Santa Fe, NM, May 2008

Solo Show, Golden Still Lifes
Sewickley Gallery & Frame Shop
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 2007

Syncopation with Pittsburgh Society of Artists
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2006

Solo Show, Adagio
Watercolors Gallery May 2005
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Drawing on the Figure
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004

Sketches
News Release
Sewickley Gallery & Frame Shop
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 2004

Regional Artists Show
Hoyt Institute of Art
Newcastle, Pennsylvania, 2004

Plein Aire Painters of Western PA Group Show
Panza Gallery
Millvale, Pennsylvania, 2004

Pittsburgh Society of Artists Members' Show
3rd Street Gallery
Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 2003

Pittsburgh Artists Show
News Release
Sewickley Gallery & Frame Shop
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 2003