Candida Stevens Gallery is proud to present Kerry Harding’s debut solo show, Edge of Day, a new body of work that puts the peculiarity of light at centre stage. Set against the backdrop of the rugged coastline of North Cornwall, these are the unique moments, often experienced at dawn and dusk, when clouds, landscape and sunlight combine to create fleeting encounters with the extraordinary and sublime. Manifestations of the artist’s memory and imagination, they are the views remembered long after their physical presence has vanished.
In Harding’s works seemingly familiar scenes are distorted, their elements manipulated such that they cannot be pinpointed in reality. Instead, they exist hazily, some bleached by light and others cast in shadow; a single tree glows under the sun’s rays, a haloed rock floats on the water’s surface, a ploughed field shines on a blackened hill. At the very moment the landscape begins to come into focus, the view is disrupted once again.
Working exclusively in oils, Harding plays
