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Christopher Hall
Born in 1930 Christopher was a graduate of the Slade School of Art where he studied from 1950 to 1954. Soon after graduating he travelled with a fellow art student to Italy in the course of which he discovered the hill-top tow of Recanati in the Marches region of Italy, birthplace of the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the celebrated tenor Benjamino Gigli. Enraptured by the beautiful landscapes of the surrounding countryside Recanati was soon to become a second home after to marriage to his second wife Maria, a native of the town. The area remains a constant draw providing inspiration for Christopher’s unique and sympathetic depiction of the town and its inhabitants. It was the former art critic of the Daily Telegraph, Terence Mullaly who described his paintings as being a “fresh view of the familiar”.
Besides paintings of towns and villages in many parts of Italy and France, Christopher Hall’s work is well known in and around his home town of Newbury.
He exhibits regularly in London and elsewhere producing work that is widely appreciated by discerning collectors. A painting commissioned after the initial redevelopment of The Vineyard at Stockcross is an enduring record of the hotel and gardens as they were before the alternation to accommodate the new extension completed this year.
Written by Noël Napier-Ford
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