Bess Harding

Bess Harding is a self-taught artist, based in West Sussex. Always creative, it took a few years of experimenting with different areas to find her niche. Her lightbulb moment came during an oil painting evening class at The Art Academy at the end of 2016, and she has been painting with oils ever since.

She is most interested in still life, seeking to capture the calm grace and quiet composure found in certain objects and exploring the character and self-possession that can found in the inanimate. She enjoys giving things a little stage to sit quietly on so that they might be considered.

Bess’s work has been selected for the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Art Prize (2018), the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition (2019) and the Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition (2020).