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TOM HALL
March 3 - April 30, 2011 Tom Hall will be at the gallery noon - 5 PM Saturdays during March Please click images above for full view.
About the work...
The prints were done between 2007 and 2011 and embrace a variety of materials...Fabriano, Rives, Arches print paper, newsprint, music sheets, rub on letters, paper bags...and a number of mediums including varnish, paint, pencil, charcoal, conte, beeswax, and ink...with plate sizes from 1" x 2" to 18" x 15" The show is made up of pairs, all selected from larger series of prints, with the hope of creating a dialogue about monoprint possibilities. All the images come from sketchbooks; the clear-cut images from Jackman, the bridge images from Portland, other landscapes from southwestern Maine. These prints are both about printmaking and about the Maine landscape. My apologies to the print purists. These monoprints and woodcuts are done with a Painter's eye and are all about the search; experimentation, trial and error, cut and paste. No rules allowed. The process is messy and inconsistent, with many prints being run thru the press a dozen times or more. Over and over, till they earn their keep. Again, this show is not for purists. It's more about a painter, after many years of dreaming, finally getting his own press and then the giddy experimentation that follows. The prints all hoping in their own way to tell a Maine story and, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, tell it slant.
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