After a further two years' study in Paris and at Antwerp Academy he returned to England to live and work in London.

[6] The preferred subjects for his work became the Middle East and Brittany; painting scenes of desert life and Breton peasantry.

[2][3][9] In the early 1900s he produced a range of comical postcards,[10] and in 1909 a series of caricatures for the souvenir programme of the Doncaster Aviation Meeting, England's first airshow.

[12] Hardy's coloured illustration shows three different views of a standing man on the north African coast.

Dudley Hardy died of heart failure in 1922, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey.