Nectarines and Porcelain Vase

Nectarines and Porcelain Vase
Copyright 2014 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

"Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything.  Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted.  Love is like a nectarine.  Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it."

-Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sunset Over Beaufort

Sunset Over Beaufort
Copyright 2014 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
11" x 14"
SOLD

"It is the artist's business to create the sunshine when the sun fails."

-Romain Rolland

We create what we want to see more of, what we desperately crave.  This is why northerners fill their homes with bright colors, why dissonant industrial sounds of the city make us crave the harmony of music.  This is why the depressed become comedians. Artists create to push their own lives back into balance. 

A few years ago I was horribly depressed.  Everything seemed ugly.  It was through art that I was able to see the beauty of the world again.  With every painting I create I am reminding myself of that beauty.  And it is my sincere, cheesy hope that you, dear reader, can see it too.

Hydrangeas

Hydrangeas
Copyright 2014 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

"It is not peace that I seek, but life."

-Romain Rolland

Grandpa's Roses

Grandpa's Roses
Copyright 2014 Hirschten
Acrylic on Canvas
11" x 14"

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns;

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-Alphonse Karr


Join me tonight for the Opening Reception
at
Gallery Two
5914 North College Ave. Indianapolis  
 Wednesday August 6th 5-9pm