Christopher Hall
Christopher Hall was born in Slaughham, Sussex in 1930, and graduated from London's Slade School of Fine Art in 1954. He is renowned as a sensitive and distinguished painter of landscape and urban subjects, often based on his frequent visits to remoter parts of France or Italy. He portrays village folk and farmers simply getting on with everyday life against such backdrops as peeling stuccoed walls above antique cobblestone roads. Here and there he introduces those wonderful fading drink adverts looking like old frescoes. His works are represented in the Collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Museum of London and the National Library of Wales.