John Hall (Canadian artist)

John Hall RCA (born January 17, 1943) is a Canadian modernist painter from Alberta, known for his highly realistic painting style.

[3] Currently, he is based in West Kelowna, BC[2] Throughout his career, Hall has focused on painstakingly accurate still-life paintings of everyday objects.

[6] While in Ohio, Hall created a gigantic Garbage triptych measuring six metres long, which is now in the collection of the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.

These last works were featured in a one-person touring show organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1989.

Mixed in between all these series were his Mexican-themed paintings, done during his annual six-month stays there between 1988 and 1999, which culminated in a retrospective exhibition at Mexico’s City’s Museo de Arte Moderno in 1994.

In 2016, the Kelowna Art Gallery organized John Hall: Travelling Light: A forty-five-year survey of paintings curated by Liz Wylie.

Painting by John Hall
Nuclear Fever (1994), acrylic on canvas
Painting by John Hall
Chambers (2020), acrylic on canvas