Patricia Halsell
Birds Portraits Still Life Dogs
Current work River Stones Earlier Work
Patricia Halsell
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FROM OBSERVATION TOWARD ABSTRACTION

Classically trained in oil painting, Patricia Halsell's work explores the space between representation and abstraction. Drawing from the natural world, her current paintings use compressed space, heightened color and expressive surface to move observed experience toward a more modernist language.

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EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS

RIVER STONES
STILL LIFE
PORTRAITS
 

A curator’s review of the solo exhibition of Patricia Halsell’s river stone paintings “Following the Wrong Gods Home”:

“It felt almost as if I was crawling along the ground, exploring the miniature pockets of life that stir within the hollows between rocks, wood and soil.

Sitting alone in the silent gallery, immersed in naturally soothing applications of color and layers of stone, I found myself re-visiting walks I would take along the rocky shores of Ireland, or explorations along the stream beds of rural Connecticut; places I call home, that harbor natural safe havens for me to sit alone with my internal narratives and reverberations. Spaces where I could digest my own human experience, and follow in toe the gods that would guide me along my own path to self-progression.”

— Yelverton Freeman, Art Curator