"There is no must in art because art is free."Wasilly Kandinsky	ABOUT Rayhart An untimely loss of innocence has sparked my inclination to dream in color again. I tumbled like tumbleweed across a great wide-open space, onto the plains of ecstasy. Creation has gravitated towards me and offered up the gift of painting. So, now, I shut off past inhibitions and soar beyond the norm, and stand for what has yet to be created, the mysterious unknown. My aim is to share as I have been given. Through art, I wage war within myself, for the rewards of peace. I adore each painting like a mother's first glimpse at its newborn. In short, I paint to allow for creation. Style Original, abstract and somewhat surreal Background  Bon Air Art Affair Judges Choice Award, 2007 Bon Air Art Affair Judges Choice Award, 2006 Chosen as a finalist in the Salem (Orbe) Emerging Artist Search in NYC, 2000 Member of Amsterdam Whitney Gallery (NYC), 2003-05  Member of Washington Project for the Arts at the Corcoran (WPAC), 2000-08  Member of The Loudoun Arts Council, 2006-present  Publications Paint Magazine, Washington City Paper, Washington Project for the Arts at Corcoran Artist Directory, Book Art Press (BAP) - New Art International, ArtWanted.Com- Creative Minds, American Art Collector, Decor Magazine, Art Business News, Loudoun Times-Mirror, élan Magazine   Poetry I believe that I am first and foremost, a poet, who believes in the preservation of good people, good poetry and good paintings. This in turn will lead us toward a good place in our lives. Robert Frost, an American poet, once said, "Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom". Thus, I would like for this to occur in my paintings as well. For, what is life without wisdom? Therefore, my art is poetry put to paint, and I am somewhat of a fallen angel, resurrected as a saint. Nothing short of the abandonment of reality, interpreted in the intensity of every brush stroke. In actuality, I do not paint these paintings, they somehow paint me. Every emotion, which I may have suppressed in my past, is evoked here in my artwork. Thus, the constant focus is on the underneath as it prepares to rise. My aim is to capture and relay it in a poem visualized as a painting. Hence, painting is my voice now, and through it, I speak only in the language of love. Tempting the most hard-pressed nonbeliever to join in and celebrate the art of living. Continue -->