Les très arts d’Acadie : une nouvelle maison d’édition au service des histoires qui comptent
Fondée en 2025, Les très arts d’Acadie est une maison d’édition indépendante née d’un désir clair : offrir un espace aux auteurs et autrices qui portent des histoires fortes, sincères et ancrées dans l’expérience humaine. Plus qu’un simple éditeur, Les très arts d’Acadie se positionne comme un partenaire créatif, engagé à accompagner les écrivains dans […]
My Friend Sam: A Storytelling Journey Into Autism, Childhood, and Understanding
My Friend Sam is a deeply personal children’s book series written and illustrated by Patrick Hardy, inspired by the real-life experiences of his son Sam, a young boy on the autism spectrum. Through honest storytelling and expressive illustration, the series invites readers into Sam’s world—one moment, one challenge, and one triumph at a time. The […]
Screaming Duckling: Art, Survival, and a Sale That Meant More
One week after surviving a pulmonary embolism, Screaming Duckling found a new home. The piece—11 x 17 inches, created in ink and colored ink pens—was never intended to be a literal self-portrait, yet it quietly became one. Created in the wake of a medical emergency that abruptly disrupted everyday life, Screaming Duckling emerged from a […]
Old Man – Art review
In Old Man, Patrick Hardy delivers a slyly arresting portrait that sits somewhere between caricature, cyborg schematic, and psychological study. Rendered in ink and felt pen, the work stages a profile view of its subject—a man whose exaggerated features and hybridized anatomy resist nostalgia and instead lean unapologetically into the present tense. At first glance, […]
Fine Art Review: Daniel 4
In Daniel 4, the ancient language of prophecy is reimagined through a distinctly contemporary visual sensibility—one that fuses organic symbolism with an almost mechanical anatomy. Executed in ink and soft pastels, the 11 × 17 inch work interprets Daniel’s dream of the great tree not as a distant biblical illustration, but as a living system […]
Fine Art Review: Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing presents itself as a meticulously balanced exploration of abstraction, geometry, and organic motion. Executed with confident line work and a restrained yet expressive color palette, the piece situates itself at the intersection of formal abstraction and symbolic narrative, inviting prolonged contemplation rather than immediate resolution. The composition is anchored by a central, biomorphic […]
“Moby Dick” — A Review
In Moby Dick, Patrick Hardy reimagines one of literature’s most overdetermined icons—the white whale—not as a monster to be conquered or a myth to be decoded, but as a presence that simply exists: enormous, watchful, and strangely calm within a sea that feels less like nature than like a living system of patterns. At first […]
Rhino – Art Critic
In this work, Patrick Hardy shifts from vertical monumentality to a more intimate, horizontal flow, presenting a form that feels less like architecture and more like a living body in motion. The drawing unfolds as a hybrid organism—part creature, part mechanism—its contours fluid, its interior alive with patterned systems and symbolic markings. Rather than standing […]
Stalagmite & Miner – Art Critic
In Stalagmite & Miner, Patrick Hardy constructs a visual ecosystem that hovers between abstraction and narrative, between diagram and dreamscape. The work features three elongated, columnar forms—each one a dense, breathing constellation of signs, patterns, and architectural fragments. Though distinct in palette and personality, the forms share a common structural logic, as though they belong […]
Tracteux – Art Critic
The Little Tractor With Big Personality This striking black-ink illustration transforms a familiar rural machine into a vibrant fusion of mechanics, personality, and playful abstraction. At first glance, the piece draws the viewer in with its bold silhouette and imaginative reinterpretation of a traditional tractor. Upon closer inspection, its intricate details and expressive line work […]