Artist Statement
Hope Harding
My process is instinctive, the materials guide me each step of the way. I may begin putting down a preliminary surface and covering it with another, then scratching into it or wiping away only to start again. The textural surfaces become, in a sense, the most important part. They bring me back to nature: the dusty earth, the wind against my skin or the smell of salt water in the air.
As I explore multiple mediums and ways of applying as well as attaching them, I discover new things unfolding in my work. It becomes even more personal when I add a found object picked up along a walk or journey. The object is embedded forever into the painting, capturing a memory.
I want people to be drawn in, to look closer and possibly want to touch the work in hope that it evokes a familiar feeling or sense of place for them.
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