One should remind ourselves that Martina lived and worked in a different world as we experience today, with the technology we are all so use to using every day, would have been science fiction to her. 

She was totally focused on producing and developing her artworks. She never got up in the morning and set herself a goal of painting a great masterpiece, today. It was the creative thought process and manipulating artist materials her main challenge and achievement. 

She never painted to order or commission. Trying to please a customer and their expectations, something she was not interested in. Creating her artwork was never an opportunity for her to run her own business, to design and make a product, organising the marketing and then delivering it to a customer, hopefully to make a profit. 

Over her lifetime she did exhibit a few paintings occasionally, usually in joint exhibitions with other local artists, and some of the paintings show were purchased at the time. Any money paid was immediately spent on more paints and canvases for her to use to paint her next artworks. How many, to who and when, no records were ever kept, and I trust that whose people who purchased them still have them hanging on their walls and giving them great pleasure every day. 

My challenge with this Catalogue Raisonne, from a curator viewpoint, is to try to catalogue as many artworks she produced as possible. I hope to be able to find and identify as many of what I call her ‘lost paintings’ over the next couple of decades. When I find them, I will add them into this Catalogue Raisonne.