Bio:
Hall Jameson is an American artist who lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her formal study of fine art began at The Maine College of Art, where she studied the modern and traditional processes and history of fine art. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Her artwork is held in many private collections around the United States and has been shown at galleries and museums locally and nationally, including The Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, The Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California. Her work has published in a variety of print and online publications, such as Kansas City Voices and Still Points Art Quarterly.
When she's not working in her studio, Hall spends her hours in her kayak on Puget Sound, hunting for ghost towns in the mountains, or wrangling her two cats, Seamus and Chai.
Artist Statement:
The natural world provides inspiration for nearly all of my art. I aim to capture a feeling of serenity in my encaustic work—a type of painting that combines hot wax, resin, and colored pigments—through color choice and texture; a place for the viewer to momentarily escape from the uncertainty of our current times, similar to the feeling you might get when hiking in the Beartooth Wilderness in Montana or paddling on Puget Sound in the state of Washington. My current series, a tribute to my time spent exploring the remote areas of the American Northwest and started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, is titled “Sweetgrass Notes”. These pieces not only reflect the feelings of isolation, loss, and loneliness prevalent in the world right now, but contain the promise of healing and rebuilding after great hardship.