Featured Artist & Exhibits
Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
SEPTEMBER FEATURED ARTIST - Jane Hart
"Inside / Outside"
The Charleston Artist Guild Gallery announces Jane Hart as the featured Artist for September. Her exhibit entitled "Inside/Outside" will open with a reception, Friday Sept. 3 from 5pm until 8pm. Her work will be on display throughout the month of September.
The exhibit features several paintings of interiors at Drayton Hall here in Charleston. Jane was inspired to paint them on her second tour of Drayton Hall. The natural daylight was coming in through the windows, lending a stark, almost abstract quality to the spaces inside the historic home. There was a sense of mystery in the empty house. As her tour group left each room, she took some photographs hoping to capture and recreate the light. The exhibit also includes some landscapes and exteriors.
Jane works in a variety of mediums, but her goals remain the same. "I'm always trying to portray a particular feeling through the use of the basics: composition, color, value, and texture. My goal is to capture the play of light on an object, to show the overlooked color and texture of a landscape, or to provide a unique perspective on an everyday scene". Jane has studied with a number of well-known artists including Master Pastelists Claire Miller Hopkins and Doug Dawson, pastelists Ben Nita McAdam, Judith Carducci, and Tammy Papa; painters Teresa Prater, Rick McClure, Hilarie Lambert, Martin Ahrens, Ann Merrill, and Joyce Hall.
Jane grew up in a suburb of Chicago before moving to Denmark, SC in her junior year of High School. Jane began her life as an artist after working and raising a family. She also paints outdoors - "plein air" painting. "Selecting a subject from all the possibilities and simplifying this into an interesting and pleasing composition - all before the light changes too much - is a great challenge to me".
Visit the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery during September and experience the light Inside/Outside as seen and created by Jane Hart. Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm and Sundays 1pm - 5pm.
