Nigel Hall RA
7/1 Larch Twigs in Snow, Nigel Hall
Nigel Hall RA is an important British sculptor based in London since the late 1970s. His precise formal geometries can be found in over 80 public collections worldwide including Kettles Yard, Cambridge and Tate. Drawing is important to Hall, not only as an expressive medium for ideas in its own right but also as a way of studying form and line. These studies often take the form of sketches and notes culled from his extensive travels over the years. It is from this study archive (rarely shown publicly) that we have been able to select this wonderful collection of drawings of Larch Twigs in snow. We are grateful to the artist and Annely Juda Fine Art for the opportunity to show these works in Plantlife.
“For many years I have spent some of the winter months in the Engandine in Switzerland on the Italian border. I walk and make a lot of drawings of the landscape: these don’t translate directly into my work but indirectly they do. One year I drew how twigs from larches had fallen and caused hollows to be formed in the snow around them and how these black spiky twigs sat within these concavities on a white expanse… this type of landscape tunes up ones vision….”
