Hannah van bart art college

In her atmospheric portraits, still lifes, and landscapes, Dutch artist Hannah van Bart (b.

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1963; Oud-Zuilen, Maarssen, the Netherlands) captures strange figures and uncertain lands. Employing figuration and abstraction in a practice that transcends genre, van Bart constructs settings from imagination and feelings from memory.

Articulating the physical and emotional contours of her figures and landscapes with remarkable psychological depth, van Bart evokes a simultaneous sense of longing and unease, of that which is at once inescapably familiar and acutely unknowable.

In van Bart’s paintings and drawings, haunting landscapes emerge from a painterly fog while figures—human, semi-human, and animal—penetrate viewers with sharp, longing gazes.

Characterized by distinctive outlines, repeated patterns, and layered brushwork, van Bart’s style is pregnant with emotional resonance. Drawing inspiration from disparate sources—from the warm golden light of