Sharon Hall
When exploring Sharon Hall’s abstractions, we encounter connecting, overlapping and joining geometric shapes, creating different perspectives and dynamics. Each colour section has its own character and communicates with its adjacent neighbours, developing an innermost dialogue. These perceptions are enhanced through Hall’s use of bright and vibrant colours. Instinctively hard-edged painters like Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly and Joseph Albers with their monochromatic fields of clean-edged colour, come to mind, emphasising the flatness of the canvas surface. In contrast, Hall plays with different textures when composing her colour segments, offering a distinctive twist.
Her geometric elements can be found in human designed environments, such as medieval and modern buildings as well as interiors. It is evident that these symmetrical and ordered components can be translated into architectural plans or layouts. In Hall’s case they can be interpreted as close intersections, elevations and passages. From time to time, she separates diagonal and rectangle colour wedges with wide and narrow stripes, or else, blocks of encroaching colours are introduced; with each method she crafts unique vantage points. The beauty of Hall's paintings is delivered through the filter of her creative spirit and her well trained eye.
Sharon Hall was born in 1954 in Darlington. After graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1981, she exhibited widely in the UK, and later, on an international scale in both Europe and Asia. In recent years, London has become a hub of interest for Hall’s work; where she has exhibited at the Flowers Gallery, APT Gallery, and Colour Structure in London, for both solo and group shows, and she is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition. While her most frequent exhibitions to date have been spread across the UK, Hall has attracted a widespread European audience from her solo exhibitions in Italy and France.
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