© Naomi Hart
Naomi Hart grew up in the Northern Wilds of Minnesota where the natural world became her education and her refuge. Hart uses symbolism from nature to tell the story of humanity in a manner that bears witness to the connective threads we all share. While dark and introspective, Hart’s work maintains a sense of hopeful wonder and joy. The viewer is quickly pulled in to find their own story within the many layers of each piece. “My work is always an attempt to illustrate the elusive “now”, so ripe with potential; dark, mysterious, and fleeting.
Naomi uses a multitude of drawing and painting materials to render on birch panels, laboring over exquisitely detailed renderings and fantastical creatures. Ultimately each panel finds it way to her encaustic studio for a final application of hot wax. “Encaustic (hot wax) painting lends itself to the manner in which I tell my stories visually. It is a versatile and engaging process which produces a sensual warmth that enriches my story and gives history and grounding to each piece”
St Cloud MN
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I am an encaustic artist, working in hot wax medium. I start with a birch panel or a panel of found wood, and sometimes stretched burlap. I often draw or paint directly onto the raw birch, and then build up layers of information through painting on and manipulating the wax. Often each piece also receives objects or hand drawn sketches imported into the wax. I love to have an extensive array of media at my disposal as I work. Oils, colored pencils, graphite, chalk, precious metals in a variety of states, rice papers, hand cut stencils, intaglio prints, and found materials all make there way into my pieces. They are rich with detail and mystery.
