Roll Hardy

Roll Hardy depicts society’s bleak urban cast-offs with a lively and impressionistic touch that focuses new attention on forgotten spaces. The derelict and abandoned locales that Hardy paints come to embody a mysterious history of intended and illicit uses. Working further afield and occasionally in a larger scale for these new works, Hardy reveals a profusion of dispossessed places. An adept painter, Hardy finds a beauty in this difficult and immediate subject matter through his unique perspective and soulful interpretation, aiming “to present a different view where mystery and possibility thrive and change can take hold.” Hardy’s paintings represent the first step in considering such possibility, bringing detached places back into the society that left them behind.