This is a quick sheet I made combining some of the photographs I took in Brussels this fall. Some of the most notable architects involved with the Art Nouveau movement in Brussels include Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, Léon Sneyers, Paul Hamesse, Gustave Strauven, Ernest Blerot, Antoine Pompe, and Henri Jacobs. If you are interested in learning more, check out the websites below.
Art Nouveau in Brussels
Victor Horta Museum

London Marathon

So this isn't art related, but I wanted to share that I completed the London Marathon on April 25th, 2010 in a 3:23:29, which is a five minute and fifteen second personal record. I was 334th out of 12,100 women. It was also my first time running for charity. I raised £755 for the mental health charity Mind and ran in memory of my close friend John Morse. For more pictures of the event visit http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2372200&id=5515482&l=a5dbc8c752

Photography in France

In the port town of Saint-Malo

Window at Mont Saint-Michel

all images © 2010 Meredith Hale

Jan Brett: Children's Illustrator and Runner

In my monthly perusal of my Runner's World magazine I made the delightful discovery that in addition to being an amazing children's book author and illustrator, Jan Brett is also a runner! She runs the Boston marathon each year. It makes me respect the author of my favorite children's classic The Mitten even more.
Read the article here.

Old Paintings that I Love

Since neither of these paintings are on my website because they don't match my style or my usual subject matter I wanted to post them on my blog. The top illustration is intended as a cover for Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle.

all images © 2009 Meredith Hale

Figure Drawing Club at Sussex

Some fifteen minute sketches from my weekly figure drawing sessions.

Art Museum Treasures

Being abroad gives me the opportunity to travel and see artwork that I might not find in typical history books. The piece above is titled "Alleluia" and was painted by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854–1931). It's in the Tate Britain with all of my favorite Pre-Raphaelite artists. Part of the reason that this piece struck me so much was that, unlike the vast majority of the paintings in the Tate, I'd never seen a reproduction of it before.

Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl (1860-1933), Die Seelen des Acheron

Vlastimil Hofman, Madonna

The two paintings above are from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. Both of the pieces are very large and I truly had an emotional response to them. Again, they are by artists that were previously unknown to me.