I think the underlying idea in this artists work is to create portraits with a new touch from the original picture. He takes old pictures from his family and makes them something new by distorting them and using unexpected colors. He says that each mark he makes means something; the little coiled designs represent familial mazes.
He creates visual coherence in his work by using similar paint strokes and mark making so you can tell that all the paintings are by the same artists. I like the way he sometimes uses coffee to stain the paper and I love the patterns that he uses in some of the paintings because they make the painting more interesting.
I think that Greg Hart uses texture well through out all of his paintings and makes them look like they have depth without have a foreground middle ground and background. He also uses pattern in some of his paintings where there is a coiled white pattern. He has a wide varied of color that is also seen throughout his pieces.
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