Richard S. Hall
About
What is your art like?
My art is typically traditional/realistic art/illustration. It generally captures landscapes/seascapes, lighthouses, architecture, outdoor sporting art, as well as natural science subjects. My latest body of work is a series of panoramas featuring the various physical geography/landscapes of the great state of Texas and beyond.
How do you make your art?
I capture my memories and imagery with quick journal sketches and photographs during my travels throughout Texas, the South, the Southwest, and Mexico I rely on watercolor, acrylic, pen & ink, and graphite pencil to capture the imagery of my art.
Why do you make your art?
My goal is to capture the beauty of the physical geography/landscapes and natural history of Texas and beyond. I also try to capture the historical significance of the architecture wherever I go.
What do you want people to receive or understand when viewing your art?
I want my viewers to enjoy and relate to the variety of the landscapes and history of Texas and to grasp and ponder the architectural and cultural differences of Texas and the Southwest.
What differentiates your work from other artists?
I believe that my art captures and highlights the geological, physical, natural, and historical features of the varied landscapes of Texas and the Southwest with a focus on the details that strike me.
Who are your influencers?
I have been influenced by a number of realist painters and illustrators from all over the world.
I have also been significantly influenced by the people that I have studied under like Buck Schewitz, Joe Donaldson, as well as a whole slew of sporting life artists like Al Barnes, John Cowen, Herb Booth, John Dearman, Ben Kocian, Sam Caldwell, Eldridge Hardy, and a number of maritime artists.
I have also been influenced in my natural history and architectural drawings by many of the pen and ink illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th Century, especially W. Guptill, my medical and natural science illustrator colleagues who pushed me to excel in communicating medical and scientific and architectural ideas and imagery.
Additional Information
Willing to be contacted for: Commissions, panels, consulting, classes/instruction/lectures, mentoring, tours
Contact
Studio #227, the Silos at Sawyer Yards
Houston, Texas
77007
United States
Located in the Arts District-Houston just west-northwest of Downtown Houston. The Silos is five blocks south of I-10. Take the Taylor Street exit south and follow the curve to Sawyer Street to the Railroad tracks and there we are. The building is open to the public daily except Sunday from 8 am to 5 pm through the main entrance on Sawyer, the door on the far east end of the building, and the door under the awning at the Site Gallery.