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Isabel Harnden
Instagram: @Isabelharndenart
Website: Isabelharnden.com
Artwork Title: Embrace
Artwork Medium: Oil on canvas
Year Created: 2025
Artwork Description:
Embrace is a celebration of warmth, love and life. The small things in life that make it worth it. It's an intimate look at something that is often overlooked, but appreciated and cherished.
Artist Statement:
Isabel harnden paints everyday scenes that spark memory and joy. She is fascinated with nostalgia and seeks to connect to her audiences with thick brush strokes and vivid colours.
Artist Bio:
Isabel Harnden is a Central Coast NSW based, Australian artist. In 2018, Harnden graduated from UNSW Art and Design with a BFA (distinction) majoring in painting extension. Her work explores the complicated inter-relationships between form and colour as she experiments with mark making to represent unique patterns and textures represented within the people and places she has lived, including her Newcastle upbringing, experiences teaching out west in Cowra and most recently her current residence of Central Coast NSW. Her paintings evoke a sense of nostalgia and wonder as she combines a range of coastal and rural environments with figurative painting techniques. Through exploring evocative colour palettes and varying application styles of oil paint Harnden captures the unique character of the Central Coast and broader Australian landscape. Harnden uses intuitive painterly techniques with a mix of brushwork and palette knives to highlight delicate intricacies of form and texture within Australian landscapes and scenes. Harnden’s paintings evoke a sense of charm with their combination of contrasting line work.
