Elspeth Hart is a west coast, Canadian artist living and working in North Vancouver. She studied Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria prior to graduating from the Graphic Design Program at Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now ECUAD). She worked as Graphic Designer and began freelancing after starting her family. Her Art Education continued with painting classes at ECUAD and workshops with local and international artists.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The mountains and trails of the North Shore are my playground and my inspiration. My paintings are created through a culmination of experience and memory of natural spaces. For me landscape painting does not merely entail creating visual representations. The natural world provides a rich narrative source of life's mysteries of; emergence, transformation, life and decay. I am particularly interested in painting waterscapes to explore these ideas and metaphors; what is in a reflection, what lies on the surface and what lies beneath. I work in layers moving between chaos and order hoping to capture the momentary beauty.