Adam Halls grew up on Bodmin Moor, and and has often made this his subject. Lichen on granite, the weathered render of old farm buildings, and flowers in the garden all turn up in his work as colour and texture rather than picture, so what you get is less a view of a place than the feel of one.
He works in a medium of his own, between textile and paint. He hand-dyes his fabric, then builds each piece up over many weeks from layers of cloth, thick impasto paint and dense hand and machine stitching, until the surface is as worked and weathered as the moorland it comes from.
Halls studied Architecture at Plymouth University before returning to Cornwall to make art, and his work drew notice at the London Art Fair in 2023. His commissions include two large pieces for The Scarlet, the boutique hotel at Mawgan Porth, and he has exhibited across Cornwall, including at Trebah Garden.
