By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by American painter 

Jane D. Hart (born 1948 in Illinois, USA).

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Jane Hart is inspired by the diverse landscapes of the low country near her home on Johns Island, SC. She creates unique compositions from keen observation of her environment, finding beauty in places sometimes overlooked. Attracted to late-afternoon light and color, she works to celebrate these ordinary places in her paintings. She expresses it this way: “I am drawn to subjects where the atmosphere or light provides a sense of time and place and perhaps evokes a connection or memory.”

Favorite locations to paint include the Shem Creek area in Mt. Pleasant, the Botany Bay Plantation site on Edisto Island, and Caw Caw Interpretive Center, a Charleston county park with old rice fields and cypress swamp areas.

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Although Hart works in both oil and pastel, pastel is her current focus. Her pastel painting technique frequently involves using a textured paper with an under-painting of pastel dissolved with alcohol. This creates a base of color on which she then adds multiple layers of pastel pigment. Allowing some of the under-painting to show through creates a vibration of color that is unique to the pastel medium.

 

An award-winning artist, Hart took her first painting class as an adult when her husband was stationed at Parris Island, SC. A number of years later, she was able to take some college-level art classes and has since studied with nationally-known contemporary artists such as Doug Dawson, Alain Picard, Christopher Groves and Bill Davidson. Her current influences are Edgar Degas, Wolfe Kahn, and Alain Picard. She has recently begun teaching in her studio on Johns Island.

 

Hart’s paintings are held by private collectors throughout the U.S., and her work has been shown in both national and regional exhibitions. She has won numerous awards for her work, is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America in New York and Women Painters of the Southeast, is a juried exhibiting member and former board member of the Charleston Artist Guild, and is Webmaster for the Pastel Society of South Carolina. She is also a member of the Southeastern Pastel Society in Atlanta and the Mt. Pleasant Artist Guild in Mt. Pleasant, SC.