Hallie Packard’s work is a study in contradictions. Her work manages to live in a singular world while exploring both a gleeful kitsch as well as a powerful conjuration of nature’s most rarified spectacles. Her work speaks to growing up in the outdoors and being beguiled by the mystical chaos of nature and our place and time within it.

Packard’s most powerful works are when she paints the effects of light in nature. There may be rainbows, but they are not referenced like children’s odes to happiness, but the magnificent power and resplendence of light. It is in Packard’s depictions of captured light that reveal a deeper, spiritual sense of wonder at the natural world. The impossible beauty of the mundane world catapults us into the realm of the numinous- the luminous glow of light refracted into rainbow colors like an oil slick across the curve of a soap bubble, the ice of a diamond twinkling in a landscape, or the glow of a rainbow captured in the stormy grey swirl of a tornado.

“My current work is about oneness and polarity, and the fragile tension that holds everything in balance. I seek to further understand what it means to be alive by expressing my deeper feelings and emotions as visual metaphors through my paintings. It is my wish to inspire hope in the mind, love in the heart, and magic in the soul. And to remind viewers of the absolute wonder that is our current earth and the respect and care it deserves.” - Hallie Packard

You can read more about Hallie and her artistic career here.

Hallie Packard
Tidal
acrylic on stretched canvas
30”x40”
$8,000

Hallie Packard
Echolume
acrylic on stretched canvas
24”x24”
$4,500

Hallie Packard
Effervescence
acrylic on stretched canvas
12”x36”
$3,500

Hallie Packard
Wyrd
acrylic on stretched canvas
24”x18”
$4,000

Hallie Packard
Orange Flowers
acrylic on stretched canvas
24”x18”
$4,000

Hallie Packard
Chimera
acrylic on stretched canvas
14”x18”
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