“My paintings aim to capture a moment in time. It is through painting that I discover, experiment and enjoy leaps of faith that land onto the canvas and become unique objects of their own.”

A photographer, painter, printmaker and lifelong educator, Beverly Hallam was a key member of Ogunquit’s art community in addition to being internationally known as a pioneering postwar female artist. Her career was distinguished from that of her peers in several important ways. In the early 50's she pioneered and researched the use of Polyvinyl Acetate as a painting medium, now used extensively internationally and known simply as "Acrylic.” She exhibited and demonstrated its use throughout the East. Known for her distinctive, extraordinarily detailed, larger-than-life airbrushed flowered canvases, her work was featured in 45 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries, and in 280 group shows. Her work is in the permanent collections of many museums and corporations as well as in private collections in the U.S.A., Canada, France, Belgium and Switzerland — including those of the Harvard Art Museums, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts.

“The first piece I created in the Flowers Past and Present series was The Past Will Always Be There. The initial painting was a white phlox in the center of the paper. I started the painting in July of 2019. four months after my mother had died.”

Mark making and the nuances of color and light in nature are highlighted in this body of work involving the close observation of aspects of landscape and the amplification of these images.