Tom Hall
The Other Way Around
The paintings are of familiar haunts once painted now painted anew. When I was a young painter, growing up in southwest Maine, barns were plentiful and, being both romantic and heroic, they were an obvious subject matter.
And Mount Katahdin, with the same romance and sense of the heroic, it offers a hard earned rite of passage to painters testing their mettle against the state’s highest peak.
The prints are different in both subject matter and medium. I’m particularly pleased with these tiny prints because the painted flower has proven, over the years, to be a less than satisfactory motif. The prints are a wonderful encouragement to rethink the possibilities. I’m pleased too that the print- making inspires the painting...usually it’s the other way around.
~ Tom Hall
