This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Francene Hart's decades of sacred geometry painting are inseparable from Hawaii, the Big Island town of Honaunau where she has lived and worked since 2001, but her own origin lies far from any tropical island: a profile in Ke Ola, a Hawaii Island magazine, records that she grew up in Kansas, a landlocked Midwestern state whose flat prairie landscape shares little with the volcanic terrain and the Amazon, Egypt, Cambodia and Himalayan pilgrimage sites her paintings and their surrounding biography most often reference.
That gap between a Kansas upbringing and a mature body of work built around jaguar, raven, octopus and dolphin imagery and multidimensional visionary landscapes is not one her own gallery and publisher materials dwell on. The geography her art evokes, tropical, oceanic, drawn from sacred sites on four continents, and the geography she actually grew up in are treated in her own promotional materials as separate facts rather than connected into a single origin story, the kind of detail a regional feature profile preserves and a national gallery biography usually leaves out.
Whatever role a Midwestern childhood played in shaping an artist who would go on to paint jaguars, octopuses and multidimensional visions of sacred sites across four continents is not something Hart's own published biography addresses directly. The Ke Ola profile records the fact of her Kansas origin without connecting it explicitly to the imagery that followed, leaving her own account of that link, if she has one, absent from the record her galleries and publishers circulate.