Mixed Emotions Painting

Jerry Hardesty was born and raised in Osawatomie, Kansas. In addition to being an Artist, he is a former teacher and also a Trainer and Manager in Corporate America. Hardesty is an Abstract Expressionist Painter. His current work is based on experimentation with color and texture as it relates to various themes, including emotions, jazz, street art and found abstracts. Blending saturated colors and applying resin are his favorite techniques along with incor- porating unique surfaces to produce textural depth and movement in his paintings. Hardesty relishes his alone time in the studio and likes to paint to the sounds of raspy sax and repetitive percussive beats of jazz. Hardesty has a Bachelor of Arts degree and has studied with a number of local artists. Nonetheless, he believes he is primarily self-taught. He paints in both acrylic and oil. Each layer is a response to the previous layer. Hardesty resides in Salt Lake City with his wife. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.