Sharon Hall
My mother’s large Caribbean family was filled with art. Classical Aria’s frequented my grandmother’s lips, who was trained as an Opera singer, while my uncles and aunts all sculpted and painted. Therefore, it was little surprise when my inconvenient art gene started to make itself known.
While I always loved art, I never considered it as a career – it was something I did despite the rest of my life. There was never a point where I decided to be a painter; instead, it was like breathing – I did it because it was natural to inhale and eventually exhale.
I began to take my work more seriously in my forties, when I was no longer a full-time mother. At the time, it also occurred to me that it was now or never, and that my baby steps towards my own art were all there was.
My style is a combination of strong Caribbean colors within a context of personal narrative, liberally influenced by Kahlo, Modigliani, and Chagall. I’m a lover of beauty, in all of its myriad manifestations, and to me that is art.
I feel a deep rooted connection between all beings, and I try to embrace these relationships in my paintings. My work explores mystical relationships between the inner feminine and nature, in the context of a mechanized, male culture. I journey from symbols of the mundane into soul healing which is both personal and transcendent.
I invite the viewer to open themselves and to journey with an open heart.