Angela Jean Hall
Every painting sings its own song.
Shouts its own anger.
Tells its own story.
Shares its own love.
Angela’s paintings express her response to a place loved, a memory, an idea or dream. She works with acrylics, oil and cold wax and collage; layering colours, removing and scraping, to create depth and textures she needs. Working from sketches and notes, she plays with colour until she gets the palette she wants. She loves a ‘quiet’ landscape, a response to a moment in the land.
In contrast, some pieces reflect her concern for how familiar landscape, or lack of it, for whatever reason, affects our sense of identity and feelings of home and belonging. Displacement, isolation and deprivation are poignant themes. Some pieces are multimedia and include life drawings of known people to bring intimacy to an often impersonal event. She uses collage, drawings, paper pieces, other media and marks to describe emotions and thoughts.
She lives and works in Suffolk – a place of big skies and wonderful light and loves to travel to the coasts and hills to work with a different land quality.
Her life experiences are varied, lots of travel, family life, teaching career and BA (Hons) History and BA Art in Education.
Angela Jean Hall 