PAUL HARTEL WWW.HARTELART.COM
“Celebrating the Inner Child” By YaRo
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ith a masterful use of color, line, and form, American artist Paul Hartel creates works to celebrate the spirit of the “Inner Child.” His vibrant compositions are full of movement and blended reflections. His style reflects figurative, abstract, and neo-expressionism highly influenced by DeKooning, Mitchel, Kline, Twombly, and Wool. He employs layers and contrasts in his paintings using oils, acrylics, oil pastels, and charcoal. With a background in Psychology and Medicine, Paul Hartel intersects the relationship between people and places. He creates depth by layering and blending blocks of color, allowing each figure to explore proportion while using inspiration from his creative role models to develop his own unique style. Hartel’s “Happy Gardener” explores human emotions in a colorful, multilayer composition. The interplay of surface and layered imagery becomes an exciting provocation that urges the viewer’s eye to travel across the canvas to discover new details each time. Harte’s work is both structured and free-flowing. His creative process is a compulsory exploration with genuine courage and curiosity. Learning and unlearning the life experience is a valued narrative he uses to follow his inspiration into the sparks of color that make the human journey a cherished memory.
“Sarah’s Mafia” Mixed Media On Canvas, 40”x40”
40 | SUMMER 2021
“Girl In The City” Oil And Oil Pastels On Canvas, 20”x16”
His knowledge and relationship to Psychology are mirrored in his ability to play with lines and whimsy as a guide through the mind. Hartel is an international artist and has exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, West Virginia, Waterford, Sligo, and Dublin, with works currently in residence at Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
“Happy Gardener” Mixed Media On Canvas, 40”x40”
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