Rene Hart

Rene Hart's style of painting is a blend of impressionism and realism.

She enjoys the excitement of 'plein- air' painting doing many of her works on location during her travels.

The aim of her paintings are to imply the nature of the landscape and her interpretation of reality and emotional expression guides her through to the final stage. "I may not recall the mood of a particular moment but years of observation are enough for what I want to say before I put paint to canvas."

Most of the time her images are not exact replicas of what she sees or remembers, rather they are impressions and feelings about the subjects - a sketchbook of facts and memories.

Still life, portraits and figurative are another of her favourite subjects to capture in oil and watercolor.

Rene Hart has studied with many fine artists, but considers herself a self-taught artist. A major influence however, 'is to study great art', and painting for nearly 30 years is not enough. Maybe another 30 years of this great privelege may be enough, and maybe not.

Rene is represented in the Great Island Gallery in Maine as well as her own gallery in Loveland, Colorado where she divides her time between her own painting and teaching artists' workshops at her studio gallery. Rene's paintings are in many private and public collections in the United States and abroad.