Hal Bohner Bio Pacifica, California
hbohner@earthlink.net
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Landscape and seascape painting go right to my heart and right to the heart of me. I grew up in Colorado and was in love with the mountains and the desert. But when I came to California the ocean took my breath away. In my head and my heart I have always had a dialog with the landscape and the ocean, and in my paintings I try to make some of that dialog visible to others. I hope to inspire them to have their own conversations.
EDUCATION
Studied watercolor and oil painting with Alysanne McGaffey, Robert Dvorak, Zoltan Szabo, and others. Studied etching at the San Francisco Art Institute and with printmaker John Sirica in his studio in Washington, D.C. Various other courses in drawing, painting, and photography.
AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
Work included in juried exhibition at Sanchez Art Center, in Pacifica, CA titled "The Heaven and the Earth and the Myriad Things as One Body," 1999.
Work selected for inclusion in "Perceptions of Earth and Sky" an exhibit at 1870 Gallery and Studios, Belmont, CA, 1996.
One of the "Top 100 Winners" in the La Jolla Village Art Competition, 1994.
Two-artist exhibition, "Art in the Jungle", Pacifica, CA, 1994.Work has been exhibited at Powell Street Gallery in San Francisco and Coastal Gallery in Half Moon Bay.
