Harold (Hal) Kirby

                                 Showing my better side as I'm painting the

                                "Powder House" during the Exeter, "Alewife

                                 Festival"

Phone: 603 659 4870

email: halsart@msn.com    (Preferred)

• Objective: To paint landscapes, marine art on location as often as possible. As a retired Air Force  Pilot, who loved flying, I also create aviation art. My favorite medium is pastel but I also paint in oil, acrylic, make woodblock prints, and monotypes.
• Experience: Painted in oil and pastel since 1970. Woodblock prints and monotypes in past few years. Art courses with Univerisity of California, Berkely, Ball State University, Washington School of Art, University of New Hampshire. Studied with many Master Artists through workshops.
• Associations: Seacoast Artist Association (Past President), Durham Art Association, American Society of Marine Artists, New Hampshire Plein Air Society, New Hampshire Pastel Society.
• Awards: A best in show, a Peoples Choice Award, several best in medium, a number of firsts and seconds,and thirds in Regional Shows, and numerous honorable mentions.

Addendum: The time spent in the far east with the Air Force made me an admirer of Japanese Gardens, the woodblock prints of Hiroshige and the Haiku (a non rhyming poem of a moment keenly perceived, generally reflecting on man and nature).

A few of my pastels and paintings are inspired by the prints of Hiroshige and the Gardens of Japan and on occassion a special painting inspires me to write a haiku as the title (Americanized version of 5, 7, 5 syllables). Please forgive me this self indulgence.

As always, my prayer is that a few of you will find pleasure in what I so enjoy creating.

Hal

I haven't painted for a while (heart surgery, Jan '05) but hope to resume soon and have some new paintings for my web site.

I have resumed (May '05) painting and a few of my new paintings are now on site.

I've had a busy summer with a good number of plein air paintings.  Thls summer (05) I've been concentrating on painting with acrylics.

During the plein air season of '06, I've been splitting my painting almost evenly between pastel and acrylic paintings.