Jane
Hart

Life & Work

A life in three acts

Jane Hart has worked three ways in one lifetime, and each way taught the next. The journalist learned how to get people to tell their story. The art therapist learned what a drawing can hold when words will not. The painter is still learning, one morning at a time.

• The Writer

  As Jane Marks she wrote for Glamour, Seventeen, Parents and The New York Times, and published five books. For The Hidden Children she sat with people who had survived the Holocaust as children, hidden in attics, convents, sewers and forests, and let them tell it in their own words.

• The Art Therapist

  She trained as an art therapist, earned board certification and a state licence, and takes the work where it is hardest: the first art therapy group in a New York State men’s maximum-security prison, at Sing Sing; the Westchester County jail; a shelter for teenage girls in Vermont; hospices and bereaved children. She still teaches today.

• The Painter

  Portraits of people and of the animals they love, often painted after meeting the sitter: more than 800 works in oil, acrylic, pen and pencil. And since September 2018, a new drawing every morning, each with a line of story.