Tom Hall
ARTIST STATEMENT
Tom Hall (b:1954 Portland, ME) is a self taught painter, printmaker, and pastelist, whose work focuses on the landscapes of western Maine…Moosehead Lake, Sebago Lake, Saco River, Kennebec River Valley. Hall is also known for his paintings of Portland, Monhegan Island and Mt. Katahdin.
The artist uses water based paints and varnishes, with pencil, charcoal, paper collage, etc., on canvas and linen. The paintings, varying from 5 inches to 24 feet long, are done in the studio from small pastel sketches done on site.
As a young painter, Hall was part of the 80’s and early 90’s Boston art scene. Returning to Maine, not unlike our Mr. Hartley, Hall set the Maine landscape as his life’s work, seeing each painting as a Maine story told. As Hall said, ‘Once I understood that there was more than a lifetime’s work ahead of me, and all of it intimately connected to the rural Maine that I grew up in and loved, well, I set to work.’
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