Molly Hargarten Art

About

Molly Hargarten

Greetings and Salutations!  Thanks for checking out my website and paintings.  I hope you enjoy them. 

 Please take your time and browse….. I have added some new information! I have started painting with oils and have included images on this site…AND…I have started to teach watercolor classes.  I am teaching at pARTiculars, through Lifelong Learning in Boulder and will start at the Art Underground in Louisville the first of the year. 

Here’s some info about how I started painting…..I was fortunate to discover my painting ability in 1999. I was visiting my family and my Mother gave me my first lesson. I painted a ‘flying snail’ (which was meant to be a butterfly) and we still laugh about the result.

Red Chilies

I have learned to paint from many talented and gifted artists. They include Jim Pedersen, Roger Mordhorst, Nyla Whitmore, Alexy Pendle, Barbara Kornfeld, Joe Fettingis, John Taft, Frank Francese, Chuck Ceraso and Tom Lynch.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Painting makes me happy. Ideas, feelings and images come to me and I must carry them out. I create a painting and it’s mine to start with but eventually moves on to its rightful owner. People ask me if it is difficult to part with a painting that has had a particularly strong effect on me…my answer is always ‘no’, I’m just a small part of the process and the process endures.

I paint whatever pulls at me at the moment; landscapes, abstracts, close ups, flowers, patterns, still lifes….I am energized by a variety of different techniques and subjects. Once an idea forms in my head and heart, I must put it on paper or canvas or it will never let me move on. Some of the elements/techniques that attract me are repeating patterns, vibrant colors, contrast of light and dark, simplifying shapes and a variety of hard and soft edges. Lately, I’m especially interested in cast shadows and making them the center of interest. I also like unusual compositions or views of a subject and am attracted to impressionistic & abstract works. I see the direction of my work moving more and more toward abstraction. I choose to work with watercolor and oils because I like the versatility and vibrancy of the mediums. As I stated, painting makes me happy and I hope that is what viewers feel when looking at my art.

- Molly Hargarten