Busacca Gallery

Colored pencil on acrylic ground on panel, fixed and varnished so it does not need to be framed behind glass. This is an ancient Ponderosa Pine. If you hug the tree and put your nose up against the bark you will smell the sweet scent of vanilla. Most ancient Ponderosa Pines only live about 300 years. Artist Fran Hardy, works as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and fine artist. Depth of knowledge, commitment, and a creative master are just a few of the phrases used in describing Fran Hardy. Having spent over 20 years refining her creative craft Fran has received numerous awards and recognition's for her work. Fran constantly strives for telling the best story in each one of her images. Education: Kutztown University, Temple University, School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design. Solo Museum Exhibitions Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Brevard Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Art Museum, Museum of Florida Art Select Solo Gallery Exhibitions Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe ,NM Uptown Galllery, NYC Millenia Gallery, Orlando FL Longstreth Goldberg Art Naples FL documentaries on my work aired on FEC-TV, PBS stations "Pentimento, The Artist's Process" "Fran Hardy, In a Brilliant Light" 2001 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Art in all its forms doesn't just make people feel good, it makes people feel alive! It can surprise, inspire, excite, and ignite your entire outlook for a moment, a day, or an entire lifetime. It opens eyes, minds, and hearts like no doctor or medicine can. The artist has the ability to transform the mundane into the sublime. When artists touch something deep within us, our lives suddenly have more meaning, joy, and possibilities.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete. Paintings may be decorated with gold leaf, and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper. Painting is a mode of expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature. A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other scenes of eastern religious origin. What enables painting is the perception and representation of intensity. Every point in space has different intensity, which can be represented in painting by black and white and all the gray shades between. In practice, painters can articulate shapes by juxtaposing surfaces of different intensity; by using just color (of the same intensity) one can only represent symbolic shapes. Thus, the basic means of painting are distinct from ideological means, such as geometrical figures, various points of view and organization (perspective), and symbols. For example, a painter perceives that a particular white wall has different intensity at each point, due to shades and reflections from nearby objects, but ideally, a white wall is still a white wall in pitch darkness. In technical drawing, thickness of line is also ideal, demarcating ideal outlines of an object within a perceptual frame different from the one used by painters.