Judith Hale

"I begin a painting with no definite preconceptions, but simply an impulse, a subliminal thought about color or space or form, an unarticulated desire. And an almost breathless excitement about the idea of doing a painting. From the first gesture, a dialog is initiated. My conscious intentions for inner light, for unexpected beauty, and a transrati... onal rightness of things which can, if but for a moment, set one free. "Completion is recognizing I have arrived someplace real. Sometimes great effort and purpose are needed to help it all along. At other times, surrender is the whole of it. Intuition speaks through desire and openness, and through the love and mastery of materials." For more information or possible purchase, please contact Ron Hale. Judith Hale was born in Mexico City and spent most of her life in California, including over 30 years along the Mendocino Coast. In July 2009 she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she died on March 15, 2010. She is survived by her brother, Ron Hale, who manages her estate--fulfilling a promise to continue to make her remarkable work more widely available. Judith created vivid, abstract oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper, using color and line in ways that were both alive and reflective of the natural world. She received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland; she also studied at the Santa Fe Art Institute with Helen Frankenthaler. Her work has been shown in galleries in Mendocino, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and elsewhere in the U.S., and is in many private collections. For many years, she taught Abstract Expressionist Painting at the Mendocino Art Center. Shortly before her passing, Judith looked up at a magnificent Santa Fe sky and proclaimed, "That is where I live." From her rustic house on the California coast, she would sit for hours absorbing the exquisitely changing sky. That depth of observation was manifested in her paintings. Judith leaves behind a number of oil paintings on canvas, as well as a large body of works on paper and a ...Read More