Paul Hallahan

Paul Hallahan’s work returns again and again to questions of nature, perception, and the shifting ground between clarity and uncertainty. He primarily paints, though his practice also includes sculpture and video, each medium offering a different route toward contemplation.

His paintings are built slowly through thin, layered washes that hold and reflect light. Rather than presenting fixed images, they remain open and fluid, changing subtly with time, light, and perspective. Each work becomes an environment in itself; atmospheric, temporal, and elusive. They resist finality and instead invite close attention, asking the viewer to linger.

Hallahan’s practice is thoughtful and measured, grounded in the belief that visual work can hold space for reflection and remain active long after it is made. Whether on canvas or screen, the works speak quietly, holding presence without insistence.Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of nature and our civilization. Using various methods and techniques his paintings are built up of thin layers on mostly raw canvases which allow light move through the works and change within the spaces they are located, transcending the composition and initial image of the work to the viewer.