Artist's statement:
Susan Hall was born in Florida but has resided in California since age 5 and currently lives in Albany. She earned a BA and MSW at UC Berkeley. After 21 years as a juvenile probation officer, she retired in 1994 to pursue her life-long interest in art. Her journey into painting began with watercolors in sunny Puerto Vallarta Mexico where she hangs out for a month every winter. More recently she has turned to oil and acrylic painting. She is a frequent world traveler. During her travels to third world countries, she takes photos which are later used for inspiration in painting. She searches out vibrant scenes when traveling and tries to translate the mystery and sparkle of the scene into a painting. In the past she has focused on vistas and landscape. More recently she includes people of the local culture into the scenes, engaged in their everyday activities. She is also part of a local pleim-air grou p that paints from nature in nearby Bay Area locations.
Susan's work has been shown in many restaurants, several galleries in the Bay Area (such as Expressions Gallery and Seed Corn Gallery in Berkeley and the 57th Street Gallery in Oakland) and in a gallery in Puerto Vallarta. She can be contacted at ebtz@aol.com or at 510-524-7939 and her art can be seen on a website - www.susanhallart.150m.com.
