Lichens (Hudson Highlands), 2025
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Lichens on Rock (Hudson Highlands), 2026
oil on board, 8" x 8"
Lichens, Rock (Hudson Highlands), 2023
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Lichens and Mosses on Rock (Hudson Highlands), 2023
oil on paper, 8"x 8"
Lichens on Rock (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Lichens on Log (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Lichen on Log (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Lichens, Mosses, Leaves on Forest Floor (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Mushrooms, Lichens, Log (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Turkey Tails (Hudson Highlands), 2022
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Tree and Moss in Early Spring (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Tree with Lichen in Early Spring (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Old Tree in Spring (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 8" x 8"
Split Tree in Early Spring (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 9" x 9"
Old Tree and Moss in Early Spring (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 9" x 9"
Edge of Pond in Woods (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 9" x 9"
Stream and Woods in Winter (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on paper, 9" x 9"
Edge of Woods in Winter (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on board, 6" x 6"
Near Marshes in Winter (Hudson Highlands), 2020
oil on board, 6" x 6"
Lauren Wallis Hall (b. 1980) is a visual artist living and working in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her artistic practice rooted in place through highly-textured small-scale paintings of wild subjects depicted in their own ecological context and directly observed from nature. She has a particular interest in the overlooked, “underfoot”, and humble aspects of nature such as lichens and mosses, which vary greatly according to geographic area and whose observation, because of their small-scale, forces people to slow down and regard their environment with more intimacy and care.
Her painting process in turn is slow, involving close looking and suspended attention over long periods of time as she slowly slow builds up color with a palette knife. Over time the surface grows until she achieves a dense decentralized field of marks, organic forms and chance interaction of color that records her ongoing state of encounter with her subjects.
For all inquiries email: laurenwallishall@gmail.com.
