Beverly Hallberg, Artist

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    Beverly Hallberg, Maui 2009

Beverly was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her deep affinity for nature was fostered in childhood through the many wilderness fishing trips her family took to the remote lakes of inner British Columbia, Canada. Her grandmother, father and sister all shared her love of artistic pursuits, and she was exposed to canvases and paintbrushes growing up. However, her own artistic career did not begin until Beverly was forty years old. At that time, she married her husband, writer Floyd Skloot. While on an artist’s residency with him, she once again picked up the paintbrush and has not stopped since.

She has taken classes at Pacific Northwest College of Art and a workshop with renowned plein air painter Scott Christensen. Beverly’s early Bachelor’s Degree in Earth Science helped create her foundation for understanding the earth’s land masses and folds.

In the early 1980's, Beverly lived abroad in Scotland for four years and traveled widely throughout Europe and Egypt during this period.  She has attended artist’s residencies with her husband in California, Ireland, Italy and France, and feels blessed to be able to connect to the earth in such beautiful locations.  

A highlight of Beverly’s life was building a round, yurt-styled house in the middle of 20 hillside acres in the wine country of Yamhill County, Oregon in 1989 where she lived for 17 years. Since returning to Portland, she has become an Oregon State University Master Gardener and enjoys volunteering in some of Portland's most beautiful ornamental gardens.  Her stepdaughter, writer Rebecca Skloot, lives and teaches in Memphis, Tennessee.

My art reflects a love of landscape, from forests to fields, gardens, water, luminous skies, in the play of light and color.  I paint both "en plein air," and in the studio from photographs taken during my travels.  While my overall painting style has generally been labeled Impressionistic, I find that the organic nature of my creative process moves me beyond a reductive label.  For instance, in response to the landscape, a strongly representational impulse sometimes emerges as a counterbalance to the looser abstract energy of Expressionism.  My colors may range from bright and vivid to subtler tonal values.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2009 Portland Open Studios, Portland, OR
• 2009-2008 "Artist's Vision Juried Show," Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
• 2008 Solo Exhibition, Chehalem Winery Tasting Room, Newberg, OR
• 2008 "Art About Agriculture Tour 2008:  Nick of Time,” Oregon State University Juried Exhibition
• 2007 Portland Open Studios, Portland, OR
• 2006-2000  Art Harvest Studio Tours, Yamhill County, OR
• 2006 "Art About Agriculture Tour 2006: Designing from Nature,” Oregon State University Juried   Exhibition, Giustina Art Gallery, Corvallis, OR; High Desert Museum, Bend, OR; Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, WA
• 2006-1996 Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR.  “Blue Ribbon” Award, 2003;"1st Place Oil" Award, 1997; “1st Place Oil” Award, 1996;  Honorable Mention Awards, 2006, 2003, 1999, 1998

• 2004 “The Artist’s Vision: A Juried Exhibit,” Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
• 2004 “Expressions West 2004,” Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
• 2003 Group Exhibition, Blackwell Brothers Fine Arts Gallery, McMinnville, OR
• 2003 Group Exhibition, Willamette Valley Medical Center, Cancer Center, McMinnville, OR
• 2002,1998,1995  “Willamette Valley Juried Exhibition,” Corvallis, OR
• 2002 “Celebrate NW Women, ” Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Comm. College, OR
• 2001 “Elements of Light,” Juried Exhibition,  Festival Of The Arts, Lake Oswego, OR, 1st Place, “Juror’s Choice” Award
• 2001,1999,1997  "Celebration of the Arts,” Arts in Oregon Council, State Capitol, Salem, OR, Honorable Mention Award
• 2000 “Salute to the Millennium,” Arts in Oregon Council Invitational, State Capitol, Salem, OR
• 2000-1995 “Showcase '00,” “Showcase ‘98,” “Showcase ‘97,” “Showcase ‘96,” “Showcase ‘95;" Beaverton Arts Commission Juried Exhibition, Beaverton, OR
• 1997 “2nd National Painting Exhibition,” Madison Avenue Art Gallery, Germantown, TN; "Award of Merit"
• 1997-1996 Amity Daffodil Festival, Amity, OR, "Best of Show" Awards, 1997 and 1996
• 1996 “4th International Juried Exhibition,” Laredo Art League, Laredo, TX, Honorable Mention Award
• 1996 Group Landscape Exhibition, Carlton Gallery, Carlton, OR
• 1996 “Art About Agriculture Tour 1996,” Oregon State University Juried Exhibition, Corvallis, Pendleton, Coos Bay, Ashland, & Salem, OR
• 1995 “Radius 25,” Juried Exhibition, Salem, OR
• 1995 “Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts,” Juried Exhibition, Port Angeles, WA
• 1995 “1995 Art Equinox,” Juried Exhibition, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

Selected Publications

• 2008 Book Cover Image, "The Snow's Music" by Floyd Skloot, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA

• 2008 Book Cover Image, "Selected Poems: 1970-2005" by Floyd Skloot, Tupelo Press, Dorset, VT

• 2006 Book Cover Image, "Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments" by Ewing Campbell, Rager Media, Medina, OH

• 2006 Book Cover Image, "The End of Dreams" by Floyd Skloot, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA

• 2005 Book Cover Image, "Approximately Paradise" by Floyd Skloot, Tupelo Press, Dorset, VT

• 2003 "Little Gifts: Amity painter Beverly Hallberg loves to share art with others," News-Register, McMinnville, OR

• 2003 "Artists of Yamhill County," Arts Alliance of Yamhill County, McMinnville, OR

• 2000 "Artist's environments are lure for tour,"  The Oregonian, Portland, OR

• 1996 "Beverly Hallberg: Intimate Landscapes,"  AAYC News, McMinnville, OR