The Art Of Summer J Hart

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Summer J. Hart

Lost in the Forest, Lost at Sea

Long as a Blink
Micron pen and watercolor, 28" x 24"

Notes to a Love Lost at Sea
Micron pen and watercolor, 50" x 72"

Interstitial states are what I find most interesting: that space between waking and sleeping, grief and joy, life and death. My influences include: Victorian Photocollage and Mourning Art, the fantastical elements in children’s literature
and creation myths, and repetitive organic geometries found in nature.

I juxtapose figures and patterned backgrounds and black and white and color to create a sense of disconnection and otherworldliness. I use a crosshatching in my paintings to mimic etchings and paint backgrounds that look like textiles.
My Recent series explore the weird zone in which zoological illustrations turn into images of childhood.

Fur to Wrap Around
Micron pen and watercolor, 8" x 10"

That Night She Fell Asleep in a Tangle of Roots. She Dreamt There Were More Girls Nestled in the Trees
Micron pen and watercolor, 8" x10"

Notes to a Love Lost in the Forest
Micron pen and watercolor, 28" x 24"

Doubled in a Pond Turned Sky
Micron pen and watercolor, 16" x 12"

The Wind in Leaves, Pausing Over
Micron pen and watercolor, 24" x28"

Stars are Swimming
Micron pen and watercolor, 12" x16"

The Wind Came and Went
Micron pen and watercolor, 12" x 16"

Trained in book arts and printmaking, Summer J. Hart received a BFA from the Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT., and an MFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Her fantastical paintings and delicate cut paper drawings are in private collections across the country.

Summer J. Hart lives in NYC with her husband and son.