James Hartman

A Morning Walk, Original Painting

2024

Artist Comments
This encaustic artwork depicts San Francisco Bay from Pr. Richmond. Fragments of sewing patterns reveal McCall's models from a packaging, adding a nostalgic layer to the composition. Artist James Hartman used a cradled panel covered in vintage collage and beeswax to create the piece.

About the Artist
When James Hartman was in art school, he became fascinated with the Society of Six, a group of artists who painted en plein air (outdoors) and exhibited together in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early 20th Century. James's paintings of the Northern California landscape pay tribute to some of the great Bay Area artists of the past. His expressive scenes feel alive through his vibrant use of color and his painterly brushwork. James’s paintings have an immediate visual impact from a distance, yet up close, dissolve into a series of confident marks and strokes. There is a simultaneous complexity and steadiness in his flattened, color-blocked planes. Knowledge and observation are essential elements of James’s working practice. To this end, he spends a large proportion of his time painting on location. His body of work captures the fresh and sunlit essence of the coastal California hills.

Words that describe this painting: beeswax, vintage, collage, sewing patterns, figurative, woman, group, trees, collage, water, San Francisco Bay, people, modern , mixed media artwork, blue

A Morning Walk
James Hartman
Encaustic, oil paint, and collage on cradled wood panel
Collaged edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2024
12 in. h x 12 in. w x 1.7 in. d
2 lbs. 0 oz.