"Most of the art images that I make explore the meeting place of lines and curves. Tensions between light and shade. Noticing the point of stillness that accommodates the possibility for movement and change ... my work intends to connect with inner substance rather than outer appearance. The work represents the blink of my eye when something sparks my attention - a split second that touches me deeply."
Greta Hart is a British artist, based in Monmouthshire, whose work is inspired by the contrasting simplicities of movement and stillness. Through the use of watercolour, acrylic, pencil and charcoal, she paints and draws the energetic coexistence of natural forms and everyday objects. We are delighted to present some of her most recent work.
Greta studied sculpture at Falmouth School of Art and completed a PGCE in Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic. She dedicated herself full time to art in 2016 after a career in Cardiac Rehabilitation and works from her home studio, surrounded by nature. A lifelong interest in dance and years of devoted Qi Gong practice background her work. "The experience of that energetic movement and its dynamic impact on my spirit has been with me ever since. It is my response to qualities of energy both felt and seen that triggers my artwork."
"The trigger that generates both my painting and drawing is in the delight of seeing an energetic co-existence of shapes threaded together as occupiers of their shared space... It is this dynamic co-existence of what is seen and what is hidden that I explore through my painting process. The appearance of my work is the combination of a variety of atmospheres. A mixture of figurative and abstact language... as Francis Bacon said, "A shorthand of sensation"."