The shallow end - pool landscape painting,
2019
by Honor Bowman Hall
Painting : acrylic, Water 46 x 61 x 1 cm 18.1 x 24 x 0.4 inch
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My work is about processing my observations of the world around me. I’m interested in using painting to capture the built landscapes that I see and interact with on a daily basis, preserving them in a snapshot. Through painting, I eliminate detail, heighten color, and hone in on the specific shapes and surface textures that remain when conjuring the memory. Our memories of a place are both more intense and less descriptive than the place itself. That dichotomy of general and specific in one image is the kernel that drives my approach to painting.
This series of pools continues my project of creating snapshots from my immediate environment. Since moving to Savannah, Georgia in 2017, I’ve spent a lot of time floating in the pool to escape the heat. This pastime led to my first pool works, which explore the perspective of being immersed in water. The surface of aqua pool water is mesmerizing because it reflects the landscape and sky, and constantly shifts. Translating the sublime transparency, sparkle and flow of pool water into a static image presents a compelling challenge. Pools are complex and alluring to look at even from above the waterline. The shape of a pool cutting through an expanse of concrete or grass is pleasingly graphic. Pools draw us in.
Pools are cultural icons, symbolizing our pursuit of comfort, leisure and control over the elements, and are connected to our collective memory of lazy summer days, tropical vacations, sprawling suburbia and blazing sun. My newer pool works key into these associative meanings by bringing the expansive pool deck of a country club, the swooping chrome ladder, and the landscape of the manicured backyard oasis into the frame.
The technical challenge of capturing moving pool water keeps me coming back to this series. The reflective quality of the pool surface, the myriad ways that light and shadow, weather, and landscaping interact with a pool, plus the striking visual of a pool set into the ground provide infinite challenges to explore. Also, the inevitable nostalgia of pool imagery ties to my larger pursuit of capturing landscapes as memories. Each pool represents one moment in my life that relates to our collective memory of diving in and letting go in the cool, blue water.
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This series of pools continues my project of creating snapshots from my immediate environment. Since moving to Savannah, Georgia in 2017, I’ve spent a lot of time floating in the pool to escape the heat. This pastime led to my first pool works, which explore the perspective of being immersed in water. The surface of aqua pool water is mesmerizing because it reflects the landscape and sky, and constantly shifts. Translating the sublime transparency, sparkle and flow of pool water into a static image presents a compelling challenge. Pools are complex and alluring to look at even from above the waterline. The shape of a pool cutting through an expanse of concrete or grass is pleasingly graphic. Pools draw us in.
Pools are cultural icons, symbolizing our pursuit of comfort, leisure and control over the elements, and are connected to our collective memory of lazy summer days, tropical vacations, sprawling suburbia and blazing sun. My newer pool works key into these associative meanings by bringing the expansive pool deck of a country club, the swooping chrome ladder, and the landscape of the manicured backyard oasis into the frame.
The technical challenge of capturing moving pool water keeps me coming back to this series. The reflective quality of the pool surface, the myriad ways that light and shadow, weather, and landscaping interact with a pool, plus the striking visual of a pool set into the ground provide infinite challenges to explore. Also, the inevitable nostalgia of pool imagery ties to my larger pursuit of capturing landscapes as memories. Each pool represents one moment in my life that relates to our collective memory of diving in and letting go in the cool, blue water.
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Honor Hall (b. 1984) is an artist living and working in Savannah, GA.
Hall lived in Anchorage, Alaska from 2013-17 and was the manager of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, the only not-for-profit space in Anchorage solely dedicated to contemporary art.
In addition to her work promoting experimental art and facilitating exhibitions and events at IGCA, Hall also taught painting and foundations courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Now located in Savannah, Hall teaches foundations at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and maintains an active studio practice.
Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014. In 2013, Hall was one of two SCAD students selected to present a solo exhibition during SCAD's deFine Art Event, which attracts artists and curators from all over the world. Hall was also selected for a solo studio fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY in conjunction with the SCAD painting department during her graduate study.
Hall has held artist-in-residence positions in Richmond, Virginia and New York, New York and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her paintings appear in several public and private collections.
In September, 2015 Hall was featured in the Arts Issue of 61 Degrees North, an Anchorage-based quarterly periodical. In March, 2016, she was commissioned by the Anchorage Museum to paint a mural in the museum's Discovery Center.
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