Now, I layer on lots of texture. It's a much slower process. Growing up in Chicago, she drew the images of life that were constantly revolving around her. Later she lived in Houston, Little Rock, and Dallas, where she graduated from Southern Methodist University and started an advertising agency. With this body of work, I've definitely risked more, exposing personal reflections of my own evolution.
Intense light bathes a cow in cobalt or illuminates pink icing on a candy valentine.
Her palette swims in rich crimson, ultramarine and Prussian blues, and citrus colors. Twelve years since she enrolled in those life-changing art classes, she is in the midst of a successful second career. Hall and her husband Gary enjoy a busy yet peaceful existence in a converted industrial warehouse in Tesuque, New Mexico, north of Santa Fe. They share their sun-bathed living space with Emily, a Lhaso Apso, and Nubie, the cat. Now I let my paintings communicate for me.