About the Artist

Sonia Hale has been a lifelong artist having started taking drawing and painting classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at the age of 11, a place that was inspiring to her from a young age. She was influenced by the blockbuster shows she saw locally over the years including those of Monet, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Chardin. She later took painting courses at Colby College in Maine and continued her studies intensively both privately and in master workshops around the country, including at the Copley Society of Boston and the Art Student’s League of New York. Sonia has greatly benefited from long-term mentoring and has received critiques from the most renowned artists of our time, including Richard Schmid, Robert Cormier and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Sonia works in the field painting plein air studies and in the studio to maximize her observation of her subjects. She prefers to work from life when it is possible. Sonia has exhibited her work in numerous shows around the country and has received many awards for her paintings including Best of Show, Finalist and Meritorious. Her paintings have been published locally/regionally (Wellesley Townsman, Boston Globe, Wellesley-Weston) and in national publications (Fine Art Connoisseur, Best of Worldwide Portrait and Figurative Artists), while her work hangs in public and private collections internationally. Her memberships have included the National Arts Club of New York, Artists Fellowship of New York, the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America.