Welcome
ERIC HALL turned to painting full time in 1996 after a long and rewarding career in advertising. Today he says, “During those years, I almost always used a representational style to communicate with whatever audience I needed to reach to impart a thought, to sell or convince. When I started painting to express myself, I continued to follow this route. Like any creative person, I have a myriad of thoughts, impressions, approaches, that constantly percolate to the surface of my mind and I soon found that I needed another voice, a less defined posture, to impart my thinking. Every bit as valid as my approach had been to a creative problem, these newer, more abstract solutions ran parallel to the processes used in my previous work. And soon I had found new paths. I call these paths ‘Collimations’.”
Collimations
Collimation is a term in optics. A telescope has a part called a Collimator that organizes light into parallel lines, which can then be focused by the lenses. This term is equally useful to describe my attempts to think on different planes and to paint in ways that express wildly diverse ideas. A parallel artistic effort. A collimation of random thinking. I feel that these paintings evince exploration, discovery and rebirth.