Emotional content and conflict are pervasive in Kathryn Hart's work.  Submerging and discovering... ambiguous space...the push and pull within the painting or shape mirrors the human experience.  Paintings pulse with an underlying agenda...a story untold.  Scrapings and scratchings dragged through thick paint give glimpse of the richness below the surface and Hart's commitment to an emotional expression that is honest and authentic. 

Combining both expressionism and conceptual art into her paintings, Hart begins boldly and energetically, focusing on nuance and sensitivity in the latter stages.  Her delight in the creative sojourn is evident...a gestalt of feeling, idea and energy emoting onto the canvas.  The heart of the work is deeply personal and emotional.  Bold shapes, limited palette and surface texture result in paintings of elegant simplicity and power. 

Figurative work plays between shallow and flat space; figures are often embedded into the same spatial plane as other shapes.  Subjects seem to be in the process of emerging out of their surroundings, embraced by them or locked into them.  The viewer's participation overlays a unique meaning that is observer dependent. 

After quickly establishing a national reputation as an award-winning, representational painter, Hart turned to highly abstracted work and conceptual-based painting.  Major influences include Bay Area Expressionists (figurative & abstract), Rothko, deKooning, Pollock and Degas.  Kathryn has studied with select master painters from around the globe including William (Skip) Lawrence since 2006 and Alvaro Castagnet from South America. 

Ms. Hart's work has been exhibited in solo and group invitational exhibitions across the country and is regularly included in national juried shows.  Emerging as a nationally acknowledged contemporary painter, Hart's awards include 1^st prize from the American Juried Art Salon in 2006 and Best of Show from both the Colorado Aqueous Exhibition (2009) and the Colorado Springs Art Guild for three consecutive years.  In 2008, Hart was recognized with a Bronze Award from the Colorado State Exhibition which hung in Colorado History Museum in Denver.  Hart is a signature member of the prestigious National Watercolor Society and many other notable organizations of achievement.  

When Ms. Hart is not painting, she works with organ and tissue transplantation nonprofits as a market research consultant.  She is an avid yoga practitioner, runner and world traveler and currently resides in Larkspur, Colorado with her husband, Dennis, and their 3 cats -- Oliver, Masai and Rishi.