‘Moor’ examines the poetic and presented wilderness zones of Penwith, Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, and represents a personal journey that I have built up with that particular landscape over many years.

I hope that these paintings describe some of the sublime and emotive energy experienced on the Moor, perhaps emphasized through the use of the gesture and texture of paint and material, however the paintings are polluted with reminders of the contemporary influence on this landscape and might be seen purely as romantic if they were not distorted, sometimes delicately and sometimes radically in subject matter, texture and meaning by modern intervention. A winding road cuts through ‘Crossing the Moor’, etched into an otherwise overwhelming elemental moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the painting ‘Distant Long Barrow and Car Radiator’ and toy cars predominate in an image of the A30 and Dartmoor. a beer can is glued to another vast triptych of a moorland stream. It is a layered landscape, literally and metaphorically. The paintings are built with different types of paint, varnish, plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich surface often relevant artifacts are added, suggesting reminders or a memory, which is intrinsic to me. The idea of a layered landscape is one that fits my experience of the Moor, its geology and history, being equally matched by idiosyncratic histories, memories of those who visit. Perhaps it is a confused notion that I seek.

I hope that no image is left untouched by the awareness of change, memory, history or emotion, often the landscapes story or journey is intentionally opaque, but I hope that these paintings remind us that we are but another layer in time.


Andrew Hardwick, 2012

Crossing the Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
192 x 343 cm





Brown Sea and Sky Exmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
194 x 343 cm





Isolated Stream, Beer Can
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
193 x 370 cm





Exmoor Coast
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
205 x 372 cm





Last light, North Moor, Three Tanks
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
160 x 343 cm





Wind, Rain, Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
140 x 216 cm





Valley, Cows, South Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
170 x 245 cm





Distant Long Barrow, Car Radiator
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
180 x 235 cm





Wind, Moor, Old Quarry
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
144 x 245 cm





Winter, South Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
92 x 120 cm





Tree, Penwith
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
92 x 122 cm





Grey Day, South Moor, Resting Cows
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
25 x 30 cm





Grey Day, South Moor, Standing Cows
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
25 x 30 cm





Heavy Mist, South Moor, Cows
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Two Cows, South Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





South Moor, Sheep
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Sheep, Slopes, Dartmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
25 x 30 cm





Winter Light, Dartmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Summer, Conifer Plantation, Dartmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Wind, Rain, South Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Cloudy Day, South Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
25 x 30 cm





Summer, Bodmin Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
30 x 40 cm





Autumn, Bodmin Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
30 x 40 cm





Old Quarry, Dartmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
40 x 50 cm





Stream, Dartmoor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas
40 x 50 cm





Old Road, North Moor
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
93 x 123 cm





A30, Cornwall
oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board
94 x 105 cm