Hal Tench

After a career in advertising as Partner and Creative Director at The Martin agency, Hal Tench returned to painting full time in 2016. Exploring a range of motifs, he stays close to the formal disciplines relevant to painting from life. An appreciation for shallow to flat pictorial depth, negative spaces, and the exploration of color drives his work. As does a respect for economy of means. His work has been awarded and exhibited by Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, Peninsula Fine Arts Museum, The Muscarella Museum, The Chrysler Museum, Christopher Newport College, and Washington and Lee University. Finally, and for some unknown reason, he began painting old furniture. Sometimes featuring the animals that live in these parts of the Chesapeake Bay, such as crabs, birds and fish. Sometimes pure kitsch. Old Bay Seasoning labels, and or Dukes Mayo.