Corey Hardeman: Presentiment

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Corey Hardeman, "nest," 2019

Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, March 22nd, 7pm - 9pm.

Painting Water: A Workshop, $100, Sunday, March 24th, 11am-3pm

Corey Hardeman is a Canadian oil painter who lives and paints in Vancouver.

Corey’s formal education in biology and, later, in architectural drafting and classical drawing have all influenced her art making, which combines elements of traditional illustration and technical drawing with a love of tonal painting, an abiding interest in biological systems and an eye for tension and movement.

She is interested in the profusion and specificity of the natural world; she tries to make paintings that are evocative, rooted in place and acute detail but also abstractly beautiful.

Much of her art is focussed on capturing reflection and movement; she paints floods and ditchwater, spring runoff and domestic objects carried off in the current.

She paints nests and trees and rot and growth. She makes drawings outdoors in most weather, and works from memory and sketches to develop her paintings in studio.

She has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions across Canada, and was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Prince George Arts Council’s Artist in Residence program in 2013. She was the Art Battle live painting provincial champion in 2013, and competed nationally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto that year.

She has worked as a courtroom sketch artist and a CAD draftsperson, but has worked diligently for the last decade to avoid ever working at a “real job” again. Corey paints full time, and divides her practice between Vancouver and Prince George, BC.

She is a mother of four feral children and friend to a broad array of animals, about half of whom possess spines. She spent several years living off grid in a handmade yurt and has nursed a variety of injured birds and small animals to health, all the while maintaining a robust presence on social media, to which she is unabashedly addicted.