SHARON HARDIE
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Art and science are the highest achievements of humankind. Both  scientists and artists feel compelled to examine more closely the beauty and the unsolved mysteries of the world. Scientific illustration has a long history that has not been  made obsolete by the camera but more necessary than ever as we delve into the structure of consciousness itself. The classical microscopists of earlier centuries such as Ernst Haeckel found that the world grew more wonderful as they crossed the limits of unaided vision. In his complex engravings of nature, Haeckel’s strove to illustrate Darwin’s notion of evolutionary development of living things. That we are all just part of a greater whole. In the mid 20th century the artist, MC Escher, worked on expressing Albert Einstein’s ideas of a curved universe in his woodblock prints such as "Print Gallery".  Escher also expressed the interconnectedness of all life forms with his series of unexpected metamorphosis as in "Sky and Water II".

Sharon Hardie works in the 21^st century surrounded by information about the  newest genetic discovery; deep space exploration and computer revolution. Yet, despite all this technological progress the very thing that makes us human cannot be proven to exist like love and emotions. Sharon attempts to make visible the universe’s and humanity’s deep space. Sharon’s paintings and drawings can take more than 100 hours of work to create. She works without any technological aids preferring traditional methods of pencil, paint and imagination. In all of her work there is the feeling of vast space. In "Karma"  a dense vine of  spirals and tendrils cling to each other as they twine into infinity. "Birth" depicts large sheet like planes connected to each other by elongated navels. One birth leading to another.    In "Black Hole" Sharon works in a circular format with spiraling tubes connected to each other.  "Black Hole" is like looking up into psychedelic jungle gym that just doesn’t end.