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.

Photography in the United Kingdom

all images © 2009 Meredith Hale

Adobe Illustrator

© 2009 Meredith Hale