Elaine Harding
Below is Elaine Harding’s current online portfolio. If you are looking for something in particular by Elaine Harding and can't find it here then please do get in touch. Also you may be interested in browsing our Elaine Harding archive.
Elaine Harding is currently exhibiting 11 works
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Atlantic Storm
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Last Light
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Lough Swilly
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Rising Mist
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 27cm x 51cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Resting Sea
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 28cm x 51cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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In The Distance
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 30cm x 40cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Snow On Mullaghmeen
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 23cm x 47cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Sun Over Mullaghmeen
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 22cm x 45cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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'Mullaghmeen after Storm
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 24cm x 45cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Lough Glore
Medium: Original Oil on Board
Size: 23cm x 45cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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Between The Clouds
Medium: Original Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 25cm x 40cm
Price: £195.00 (change currency)
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.
