Loch Gallery congratulates John Hall on his retrospective exhibition, John Hall:Travelling Light, A forty-five-year survey of paintings, which opens at the Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary on January 26th.
Organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery in collaboration with the Nickle Galleries, the exhibition runs January 26 - April 29, 2017.
John Hall is renowned as a painter of detailed, highly realistic works that reflect his travel, relationships and stuff of life.
Born in Edmonton in 1943, Hall spent much of his career in Calgary, moving to Kelowna in 1999. He studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in the early 1960s and the Instituto Allende, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, before moving to New York to paint in 1979 and 1980.
In the 1980s Hall created his Tourist series and Toys series, then began the Still-Life Portrait series in which he paints collections of objects that evoke his subject. Since moving to Kelowna Hall continues to explore still-life and has depicted monumental donuts, candy, tea cups, and CDs. His most recent works have focused on fruits and vegetables.
