We believe that art is about love, joy, and expression, and not perfection (perfection is subjective anyway, just like the best art is).
In creating this gallery, we aim to be a part of celebrating the messy, bold, vibrant and imperfect, so we can find function in the seemingly dysfunctional, and remind ourselves that life is supposed to be about fun and play as much as anything else...
...that the rawness of life is what makes it worth living; the intense and passionate moments that make us human with the potential for levels of enlightenment ... to be light ... to be free.
Dianna Hardy's art captures that light-heartedness and intensity alike.
Dianna is Bahian (Brazilian) and Macanese (Portuguese line) by birth, and has had the inspirational joy of growing up multiculturally. In her childhood, it seemed she was surrounded by angels, incense, monks, all kinds of gods, food markets, typhoons, a bustling family life, and the beach and sea. Moving to England at the age of 9, she fell in love with Arthurian myths and legends and fairy lore. She loves storms, the stars, the sun's rays creating a kaleidoscope of colours through her eyelashes, the sound the wind makes through leaves, the smell of everything after it rains, and she is still very much invigorated by a windy British day.
All of the above feeds her creativity and intuitive urges - she's been sketching for fun and peace since six years old, and writing stories since she was eight. Storytelling and dreaming is what she does to bring her visions forward. Her drive has always been to inspire raw emotion in others; to trigger deep feelings about life and encourage a breaking of conditioned boundaries for positive evolution.