Ruth Hall

The last several years my work focus has been with oil paint and oil pastel. My inspiration for painting comes from travel, but it's more than travel. It's doing life a little different than usual, take a different path, stop at a different place, and look another way. I take digital photographs to help remind me of my emotional response to a place and time. I paint to capture a feeling of that place and time, not just a representation of a place.

I have always been drawn by the subject matter