Heather Hartman Landscape Paintings

Echo III is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image on paper then stretches a silkscreen on top of the image to create...

FROM A VANISHED GREEN is a multilayer oil, gouache and acrylic painting on paper, with additional use of tyvek and polyester mesh. Through layered silhouettes of hand cut tyvek shape...

"Summer's End " captures the soft patterned shadow of the leaves. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates a...

VOID is a multilayered composition created with paper, painted tyvek and silkscreen cut-outs. The panel was initially created as part of the “Kudzu Season” series, exhibited in the C...

CHROMASEEDS is a multilayered composition created with paper and tyvek cut-outs painted with oil, acrylic, and gouache, sealed with polyester mesh layers. The plants represented in the piece are Gaillardia flowers, commonly known as blanket flowers, native to North America and often bred for their decorative, ornamental shape. In her creative process, Hartman anthropomorphizes the flowers, paying attention to their dance-like growth movement. Here, their shadows dance in the prismatic light of the rainbow, while the wind catches their seeds, cultivating the garden. The vibrant, rainbow light was achieved by painting a prismatic shape on tyvec and black paper, creating a reverse silhouette...

"Rising Burst" is created by Heather Hartman to capture the light bursting through an obstruction. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscap...

CREEPING AND CLIMBING by Heather Hartman was created for her exhibit, "Kudzu Season." This painting is a rendering of Kudzu vines on a blue atmospheric back...

This piece by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. "Waning," is the autumnal piece of the series. Peach and magenta undertones outline a hazy vision of leaves bustling in the sunshine. The dark silhouette of a kudzu vine...

Echo IV is a composite of images collected from my daily surroundings (light, architecture, and botanical forms) combined and reimagined as an attempt to grapple with larger questions of ecology and mutability. Layers of paper and cut Tyvek are painted and manipulated beneath the surface – pushed and pulled in and out of focus...

DORMANT by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. This painting, titled "Dormant," is the Winter-inspired piece in the series. After the first frost of winter, all of the leaves of the kudzu plant fall off of the vine, leaving it limp and bare. Here, we see the stark outline of a kudzu vine...

WATER AND LIGHT (THE THIEF) by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. "Water and Light" is the spring-inspired painting of this seasonal series. During the spring, the kudzu plant begins to awaken from its winter dormancy. The predominantly light blue/sage green atmosphere of this painting gives way to the vibrant curve of a rainbow on the right-hand side of the painting. The leaves of a tree in the background give us the sense that plant life is beginning to flourish. The silhouette of a bare kudzu vine...

TENDRIL by Heather Hartman was created for her show titled "Kudzu Season." This painting titled "Tendril," depicts a kudzu vine in white, layered over an at...

This piece by Heather Hartman was created for her exhibit titled "Kudzu Season." This painting, titled FROST, depicts Kudzu during the winter season. It is an enlarged cropped compos...