martin john garhart,martin john garhart's works of art, figurative works, landscapes, Water colors, watercolor poems, commissioned portraits, Print making images, intaglio, relief, drawings, unique framing , Martin John Garhart's artist statement, Marti

Learning to Draw- Drawing to Learn
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Martin John Garhart has worked as an artist/teacher, teaching, making, and showing his images over the last forty years. His works reside in over forty institutions including the British Museum, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institute, as well as numerous private collections. He is a Professor of Art Emeritus from Kenyon College, in Gambier, OH where he taught Studio Art for thirty one years.

Having grown up in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he has returned to the West and now splits his time between his cabin/studio in the Black Hills and his home/studio in Powell, WY.

home/studio
405 west 2nd st.
Powell WY 82435
307-254-0597

cabin/studio
21950 us hwy 85
Lead, SD 57754
307-254-0597
garhart@kenyon.edu

The Language of Flowers Series
(lino-cut prints)

I am working with the concept of the meaning of flowers, and the use of the angel figure as a symbol for hope. Throughout time flowers have been used as symbols for specific emotions. Although the references are not exact, and many have a variety of meanings, I have chosen those that work well with certain human gestures and expressions. The angels are not meant to be a religious reference but as a symbol for the human spirit and its endless belief in the possible, in spite of the unprovable.