"Secret Spot" 21 x 21 - Oil on Canvas

Born in Montreal- Quebec to a French Canadian mother and a Latin American father, Amelia G. De Hart moved around the USA in her twenties traveling extensively from Florida to California and then through the Blue Ridge mountains where she eventually found an artist community nestled in the countryside. She then parted her time between Canada and Virginia and completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Later on she attended various art residencies through America, and the Arts Students League in New York city, where she sought to let her explorations of the natural world and her fascination for flora inform her work. Following in the footsteps of many Americana painters and French impressionists alike (O'Keeffee, Pelton, Odilon Redon, Monet) seeking to express the divine through plant form, she went on to create complex yet soothing abstracts using vivid pigments and fluid like shapes. Speaking of her process De Hart says: " My technique is based on a more sensory and physical method than a rigid conceptual one. I always strive to explore different textures, effects and shapes, allowing the paint to find a dynamic of its own by letting “mishaps” happen. I like to think that water and sun are mediums just as important as paint and brushes in my work, as I often let my paintings sit in the sun for hours to let water and paint stains evaporate and for the many layers to dry. Spontaneity, memory, flow. I also believe color can be therapeutic and healing and color itself can invite a wide range of emotions. I want my work to be regarded as joyous and enlightening."