Kim Hart currently based in Italy. Her large and confrontational portraits deal with the people in and around the city of Venice where she lives and works. Approaching people in the streets she photographs them, searching for those fleeting expressions which betray the essence of their character, which once revealed,will then be worked into a finished portrait.

The qualities she focuses on are common to everyone and resonate within the individual viewer, making the finished portraits both universal statements about the nature of humanity as well as about individuality and identity. She is also careful not to reinforce stereotypes, as the reading of the work would then go no further than to fortify ones own preconceptions.

With a broad, swift and painterly mark, she draws out the long history of literal and metaphoric marks and scars manifest in a subjects face, and without sentimentality hopes to introduce the viewer to a fundamental reality.