So, Evolution How's That Going For You?

This painting was first conceived four or five years ago. It was based on a street in Aleppo, Syria, but could have been about Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, or countless other places around the world. I tried starting this several times but found it very emotionally difficult to follow through. With the invasion of Ukraine, I felt that I had to persevere. To show humanity at its worst with the face of a greater, more balanced nature, looking directly out at us. Revealing our profound folly and destructive failure.

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STEPHEN HALL BIO
Stephen Hall, born in Scotland, is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Now living in New York, his work is indicative of a surging talent that has been refined over many years. Each of his paintings is composed of numerous layers, executed without any modern trickery such as digital assistance or an airbrush. The resulting lush density of color and light variation owns the viewer’s attention.
Stephen has not only been exhibiting worldwide since the early 80s, but his work also resides in corporate and private collections worldwide and has been featured in movies, music videos, and magazines. On top of this, he has also illustrated book covers for A.A. Milne, J.G. Ballard, and Russell Greenan amongst others.
Over the past several years, with specific use of color and composition, he engages the viewer inclusively. He has been more explicit in his purpose, focusing on pollution, climate change, and the ongoing endangering of fauna and flora.
He will often juxtapose the subject with its environmental setting, while adding a man-made object, or corporate product, as a symbol of our culpability.