Christine Hartman
7 Academy Street
Beacon, NY 12508

845.838.3635

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painting@hartmanstudios.net

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Last Exhibition (2005)

INTENTION

How can one do anything without being clear about just what is intended?
Lacking clarity in intention is a problem.
So here is a shot at it.

Painting.
I intend for the work to have its own reality, presence, to find that in nature, to develop it in the painting.
As I work, the painting must come to direct my choices by its needs.
I intend for the drawing to be graceful and complete. Lines moving magically through the space they create.
I intend the color to be luminous, to have the paint become the light.
That would be great.
That is what I work on.

“Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.”

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