The Creative-Native Project

The Creative-Native Project

The Creative-Native Project: The Interaction Between Art, Environment and Creativity

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Nature Writing, An Inspiring Interview on "To the Best of My Knowledge"

"Flash", 52" x 71", oil over egg tempera with 22kt gold leaf, 22kt moon gold, 22kt white gold on panel by Fran Hardy cop...

Friday, September 30, 2011

"In a Brilliant Light" now on you tube

"Night Bloom", 28" x 20", oil over egg tempera on panel with 22kt gold leaf by Fran Hardy copyright I spent quite a few ...

Friday, September 9, 2011

TreeBeard lives in the Tallgrass Prairie

"TreeBeard Lives in the Tallgrass Prairie", 44" x 36", colored pencil on acrylic ground on panel by Fran Hardy copyright...

Thursday, September 8, 2011

UNM Landarts Program

Catherine Harris and I at the Fodder Project In 2000, Bill Gilbert started the Landarts Program at University of New Mexico. The students e...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Reverie on Peaches

"Redhaven", watercolor by Fran Hardy copyright Private Collection My sister, Joan Hardy wrote this about peaches in an email to ...

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

It's Just Bananas

Detail of clump of bananas growing and with the flower from "Morning Mist Rising" by Fran Hardy Copyright An interview that Terr...

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About Me

The Creative-Native Project: Fran Hardy received a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and has had six solo museum exhibitions one of which was a 15 Year Retrospective. "Fran Hardy, In a Brilliant Light" a documentary about her work aired on Orlando PBS, WMFE-TV in conjunction with her traveling show of the same name across the state of Florida in 2001. A recent traveling show entitled "Pentimento" traveled to museums across the country. Select PBS stations and FEC/PAEC-TV, continue to air new documentaries on her work as well as The Creative-Native Project series. Ancient trees and primordial plants provide symbolism and fertile material for her works. Her drawings and paintings of trees, are part of a lifelong preoccupation that centers around very elaborate, otherworldly large scale drawings and their interpretation into paintings. Madelon Sheedy, Curator at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art has said of her work "It is obvious that Fran Hardy paints what interests and inspires her, emphasizing the interplay between light and dark and forcing us to look at, rather than into or through the commonplace. The elegance in her work heightens the importance of the ephemeral and makes it timeless."

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