Leila Hall

After a childhood in New England and the ensuing years in California, Leila Hall came with her husband to New Mexico in 1987. She spent her childhood and adolescence in drawing classes and was fortunate enough to study under Phil Dike and Paul Darrow at Scripps College in Southern California, where she earned a BA in Philosophy. Recent workshops have been with Deborah Christiansen Secor and Paul Murray.

Her work has been exhibited in many shows including the Masterworks Show, Miniature Division; Pastel Society of New Mexico National Show; New Mexico State Fair, professional Division; a Solo Show at the Studio 5 Gallery in Santa Cruz, California; and the Masterworks of New Mexico Miniatures. Her awards include First Place Pastel Miniatures, Masterworks 2009; the Muldoon Memorial Prize at PSNM National Show 2008; First Place and Honorable Mention, Miniature Pastel, 2006 Masterworks Show; Second Place, Miniature Pastel, 2005 Masterworks Show; Second Place, Miniature Pastel, 2004 Masterworks Show; and First Place, pastel, Non-professional-1996 New Mexico State Fair.

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"Amsterdam Cafe Pastel"

"Spring Field"

"Vancouver Park"

"Malibu at Sunset"

"Old Barn, La Cienega"

Hall says:

"I am a pastel artist who paints in a fairly traditional style, using landscape and buildings as my main subjects. Soft pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper is my first choice. Early on in my life, I was influenced by the elegance and limited palette of Andrew Wyeth. Add to that a passion for the pastels of Degas, and the light and dark in the impressionist paintings and that is where I am now."