Hoodoo MO Outsider Art Gallery - W. D. Harden

<BODY BGCOLOR="#fdad42" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#ff0000" ALINK="#ff8040" VLINK="#ffff00"> <P><CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+3" FACE="BernhardMod BT">W. D. Harden</FONT></B></CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+3" FACE="BernhardMod BT"><IMG SRC="wdH.jpg" WIDTH="229" HEIGHT="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></FONT></B></CENTER></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1"><BR>         W D Harden was born and raised in "small town" Georgia. He got an education in the scientific aspects of agri-business, but was very unsatisfied and unfulfilled with that type of work. More than a decade ago he became aware of and fascinated by folk/outsider art as a genre. He saw paintings by some of the 'old timer' folk artists in Georgia and Alabama, which gave him the courage to try his hand at painting. Harden, a closet musician/ guitarist with a love for the original blues of Robert Johnson, was inspired by the lyrics of perhaps Johnson's most famous tune, " Got a Hellhound on My Trail". He started out painting Hellhounds and has painted them ever since. The Hellhound has become his signature character, however over the years he has diversified a bit and also paints Flying Hellhounds and Helligators and an occasional Snake and sometimes surprise subjects just jump out. For several years he had been rather reclusive, working /painting/living a solitary existence in rural north Georgia, and selling his work via the Internet. Harden has recently moved from Georgia to western North Carolina to paint and live with his love, </FONT><FONT SIZE="+1"><A HREF="hotel.html">Ramona Hotel</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1">.</FONT></P> <P> </P> <P><CENTER><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_parent"><FONT SIZE="+1">Back to Artists List</FONT></A></CENTER> </BODY>