UK Art Scene: Extraordinary year for English landscape painter
BREXIT may be rearing its head again in the press but The UK continues to be the centre of most things including culture and art.
Caroline Hall is having a smashing year as her works see increased exposure and presence among London’s important art scene. Read the official press release from CITRINE PR:
Caroline Hall is enjoying the sort of year that every artist dreams of. A prestigious solo show at a major UK public art gallery and a collection of seascapes that have nearly sold out within 3 months of exhibition. This English artist, based in the famous old cathedral city of Winchester, has a modern take on landscape. She paints on aluminium panels that are made specially for her, and her easily recognizable style includes sanding, drilling and scratching back into the metal so that the surface glints and sparkles in the light. Southampton City Art Gallery, which holds the most important collection of contemporary art outside London, invited Caroline to launch a series of solo exhibitions by regional artists. Inspired by the Hampshire countryside, the artist?s early works, such as Autumn, were triggered by film shot out of car and train windows. These split second glimpses of scenery are stretched across the surface of the aluminium in streaks of vivid color and capture a lasting impression of a landscape speeding past in a blur of speed.
Alongside her Hampshire Views, Caroline has worked on a series of paintings inspired by a journey on the London Underground. Thi...
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