Valerie Hardy has lived and worked as an artist in Virginia, since 1982.  Her MFA training at American University taught her that art first and foremost requires the artist to observe life.  Consistent with that view, Hardy creates images of recognizable human experience.  She comments:

 

    I like to paint interior spaces in ways that capture the interplay of objects, spaces, and light.  When I paint people, I like them to be situated in interior settings as well, most often in their own homes or work spaces.  The challenge is then to reveal the relationships among the people, the objects, the spaces, and the light, in a way that says something visually interesting, and yet still represents these things as identifiably themselves.  Those same principles of observation apply to any subject I paint.

 

Hardy's work may be seen by appointment in her studio in Richmond, Virginia.