Luke Edward Hall

Luke Edward Hall

BornNationalityBased In
1989BritishLondon
Biography

The romantic aesthetic of Luke Edward Hall’s works is informed by the past and suffused with various references, from the Bloomsbury Group, who very much believed in blurring the boundary between art and design, to Cecil Beaton with Wes Anderson sense of colour. He regularly draws his friends, acquaintances and imagined characters in a distinctive, fluid style referencing the eccentric lifestyles of the 1920s and ‘30s. Luke Edward Hall is greatly inspired by Jean Cocteau, whose mid-20th-century line drawings conjure the intimacy of romance, while the occupants of some of his more isolated scenes are imbued with the same emotional ambiguities that appear in the work of Patrick Procktor or John Craxton. His emotionally charged and aesthetically decorative work explores love, and masculine tropes. His poetic drawings and paintings vibrate with a bold, lyrical motion, combining classical iconography with the immediacy of the everyday oscillating between mythic narratives and a deeply personal interior space. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Hall’s intimate canvases combine pastel hues with explosive color to render a unique symbolical universe derived from folklore and art history. The results are dreamlike, exploring psychological terrain as well as broader concerns like the vulnerability and pervasive eroticism of the male body. ...

Selected Artworks
Tulips in an Ironstone Jug 2/3
Luke Edward Hall
Tulips in an Ironstone Jug 2/3, 2022
45 x 28.5cm
Tulips in an Ironstone Jug 3/3
Luke Edward Hall
Tulips in an Ironstone Jug 3/3, 2022
45.5 x 28.5cm
Red  Leo
Alessandro
Luke Edward Hall
Alessandro, 2022
40 x 35cm
Hyacinthus
Luke Edward Hall
Hyacinthus, 2023
75 x 60cm
Ganymede with Silver Spare
Luke Edward Hall
Ganymede with Silver Spare, 2023
150 x 120cm
Boboli Gardens II
Luke Edward Hall
Boboli Gardens II, 2022
35.5 x 27.5cm
Aristophanes on Love
Luke Edward Hall
Aristophanes on Love, 2023
30 x 42cm
GREEN FAUN
Luke Edward Hall
GREEN FAUN, 2024
35 x 25cm
ORPHEUS PLAYS HIS FLUTE
Luke Edward Hall
ORPHEUS PLAYS HIS FLUTE, 2024
42 x 59cm
ORPHEUS WITH UNICORNS
Luke Edward Hall
ORPHEUS WITH UNICORNS, 2024
59 x 42cm
Homosexual Flowers III
Luke Edward Hall
Homosexual Flowers III, 2023
60 x 43cm
BOY WITH WILDFLOWERS II
Luke Edward Hall
BOY WITH WILDFLOWERS II, 2024
59 x 42cm
ORPHEUS WITH UNICORNS
Luke Edward Hall
ORPHEUS WITH UNICORNS, 2024
59 x 42cm
Gallery Representation
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