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Elaine Harding - Archive

Below is our complete archive of Elaine Harding’s work. This archive is for information only and unfortunately the work is no longer available to buy. For the full listing of available works to buy browse our Elaine Harding portfolio.

Elaine Harding currently has 37 archived works

A Donegal Bay by Elaine Harding
A Donegal Bay
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2006
Lough Swilly by Elaine Harding
Lough Swilly
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2006
Rathlin At Night by Elaine Harding
Rathlin At Night
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2006
The Sperrins Across Lough Neagh by Elaine Harding
The Sperrins Across Lough Neagh
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2005
Horn Head by Elaine Harding
Horn Head
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2005
Fairhead & Rathlin Island by Elaine Harding
Fairhead & Rathlin Island
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2005
The Second Day by Elaine Harding
The Second Day
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2005
Horizon And Blue by Elaine Harding
Horizon And Blue
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2005
Red Sky At Night by Elaine Harding
Red Sky At Night
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2005
Mullaghmeen Spring by Elaine Harding
Mullaghmeen Spring
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 23cm x 45cm
Year: 2005
Sunlit Peat Field by Elaine Harding
Sunlit Peat Field
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 20cm x 38cm
Year: 2004
Undertow by Elaine Harding
Undertow
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Year: 2004
Morning Flight by Elaine Harding
Morning Flight
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2004
Seascape by Elaine Harding
Seascape
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 40cm x 60cm
Year: 2003
Trees In Landscape by Elaine Harding
Trees In Landscape
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 40cm x 60cm
Year: 2003
Wine-Dark Sea by Elaine Harding
Wine-Dark Sea
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Evening Sea by Elaine Harding
Evening Sea
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Val d'Orcia In Summer by Elaine Harding
Val d'Orcia In Summer
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Evening Storm Clearing by Elaine Harding
Evening Storm Clearing
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Misty Mournes by Elaine Harding
Misty Mournes
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Civitella by Elaine Harding
Civitella
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Easter Sea by Elaine Harding
Easter Sea
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Tyrrhenian Sunset by Elaine Harding
Tyrrhenian Sunset
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
Mantua by Elaine Harding
Mantua
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 15cm
Year: 2003
Venice by Elaine Harding
Venice
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2003
Po Valley by Elaine Harding
Po Valley
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2003
Winter Fields by Elaine Harding
Winter Fields
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 25cm
Year: 2002
Val D'Orcia, Tuscany by Elaine Harding
Val D'Orcia, Tuscany
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2003
A Soft Day by Elaine Harding
A Soft Day
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 30cm
Year: 2002
Tyrrhenian Sea by Elaine Harding
Tyrrhenian Sea
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2003
Alps From The Po Valley by Elaine Harding
Alps From The Po Valley
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 15cm x 20cm
Year: 2003
Morning Spirit by Elaine Harding
Morning Spirit
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2002
High Plateau by Elaine Harding
High Plateau
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 30cm
Year: 2002
Northern Coast by Elaine Harding
Northern Coast
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 30cm
Year: 2002
Somme Memorial, Thiepval by Elaine Harding
Somme Memorial, Thiepval
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 20cm x 30cm
Year: 2002
Oregon Trail by Elaine Harding
Oregon Trail
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2002
Echo Beach by Elaine Harding
Echo Beach
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Year: 2002

Elaine Harding’s Biography

Elaine Harding spent much of her childhood and youth in coastal California, where she developed an enduring fascination with the sea. Frequent journeys across the northern and central plains of the United States and across the deserts of Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico also left a lasting sense of the expanse of open landscapes. To these early impressions were subsequently added experiences of living in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and Italy, which enhanced her awareness of nuances of colour, weather and light.

At the same time, Elaine was pursuing academic training in philosophy and Patristic theology, gaining her PhD in 1996. She became increasingly influenced by classical aesthetics, and began to explore, both as a scholar and an artist, underlying principles of proportion, balance, distance, light and colour. In 2001 she resigned her academic post to devote herself to painting, exclusively in oils. Her work is minimalist, concentrating on the integral features of each subject. The viewer is thus invited to reflect on the inherent harmony of both the external world and the interior self. Elaine has recently begun to apply these principles also to still life and portraiture.