Kate Hall grew up in East Wales and pastoral rural life is the focus of her work. Landscape illustrates her intuitive, semi-abstract approach, simplifying the scene into interlocking geometric blocks. The precise shapes blend the fluid mass of dark water and flat planes of land, where colour is muted but expressive: pale ochres and creams juxtapose opaque black and deep blue under the shimmering light in the sky. Perspective is deliberately ambiguous, the horizon line stretched and distant. This interpretative engagement with the landscape feels more of a personal memory of space, place and mood than literal depiction.

Winner of the Outer Spaces Award, Kate Hall’s landscapes are mesmerising in their strong, compositional clarity, also seen in Watching for Rain, the sharp diagonal cliff cutting across to divide land and water. This crisp linear structure guides the eye toward the horizon with a delicate balance between solidity and openness, giving a wide, panoramic view. Poised between geographical realism and abstraction, there’s a sense of atmospheric stillness as grey rain clouds hover in the distance.

by Vivien Devlin from art mag

Watching for Rain

Landscape

Flooded Field II

Fence Post

Flooded Field

Below the Farm

Red Fence

Red Barn

Twin II