Artist Info
Joice Hall
Joice Hall studied at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB (1960-1965) and at the Instituto Allende in Mexico (1965-66). Working in oil, she has used landscape as the focal point of her work. In the 1970s, she produced a series of landscape paintings containing surreal plant forms that represented human characteristics. The artist states that these paintings celebrated the cycle of birth and regeneration. In the garden paintings of the late seventies, she notes that the plant forms became more realistic and became metaphors for the human figure, both male and female. During the 1980s, she introduced a nude male figure into the landscape. Through the 1990s she continued to use the panoramic format, but on a smaller scale.
Hall moved to Kelowna, BC in 1999 and continues to be inspired by the landscape in the Okanagan Valley. Beginning in 1981, she has had numerous solo exhibitions including The Colour of Winter, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB (2016); Joice M. Hall: 25 Years of Painting, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB (2010); Surreal.Real.Ideal: The Art Of Joice M. Hall, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC (2010); Driving South, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2000) and El Dia de los Muretos, Casa Verde Galeria, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (1999). Her work has also been included in many group exhibitions across Canada including Landscapes Reconstructed, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB (2016); Getting Naked, The Museum, Kitchener, ON (2015); and Made in Calgary: The 1980’s, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB (2013-14).
Hall’s paintings are in various public collections across Canada, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON, the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, and the University of Lethbridge collection, Lethbridge, AB. Hall’s paintings are also in various corporate and private collections across Canada and the United States.
