Exploring the interfaces of lived experiences, and human lives.

Hardaker’s paintings and drawings are full of life and contemplation. Often evoked through animal shapes and in “Watching not helping”, animals found on the side of country lanes, Hardaker’s work is both serious and playful.

The drawings are visceral and free, with a mesmerising quality of line and smudge. Hardaker’s paintings are rich in colour and viscosity, amplifying intense emotions and shouty passions about the subjects within.

Hardaker chases opportunities for collaboration. Hardaker’s work ethic and processes are central to her output. Daring, funny, warm, emotional, imaginative, process is the vehicle to her communication and language is key.

Compared to artists such as Dubuffet, Harring, Rego and Kiff, Hardaker will often include inspiration from artists work into her own narratives; Mondrian for his methods of abstraction and Bonnard in order to unsettle his settled interiors. Exploring paradox and ambiguity, Hardaker aims through her art to invite the audience to contemplate and make philosophical reflections of life, living, dying and death.