About the Artist
Lavinia Hale grew up in several states on both the East and West Coasts in a creative, can-do family. After graduating from Brigham Young University with a BA in Visual Arts and marrying her sweetheart, Jacob Hale, her young family moved to Lafayette, Indiana while Jacob attended graduate school at Purdue. They promptly fell in love with Indiana and feel so blessed that they have called Greencastle home since 2011. Her family has blossomed to include eight children half of whom have flown the nest and are starting their own grand adventures.
True to her motto “Embrace the Process” painting, especially “en plein air” has offered the perfect artistic solution for her busy life – brief, intensely concentrated moments of breathing in nature and translating that into color, value, and emotion. It is an exercise of reducing complexity into fundamental, meaningful passages and marveling at God’s creations. She seeks to capture the elusive quality of light and the subtle shifts of color in a landscape. Dually Inspired by the thick impasto of Russian Impressionism and the soft mystery of American Tonalism, Lavinia is exploring the knife edge lines between realism and abstraction, looseness and accuracy, boldness and subtlety, spontaneity and calculation.
Awards & Recognitions
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2025 AugustGallery on the Square "Paint the Town" Plein Air Competition Second Place
2025 April IPAPA First Brush of Spring Merit Award
2025 April IPAPA First Brush of Spring Field to Finish Merit Award
2024 August Gallery on the Square "Paint the Town" Plein Air Competition Merit Award
2024 April IPAPA First Brush of Spring Field to Finish Merit Award
2024 April IPAPA First Brush of Spring Quick Draw Merit Award
2022 Nov IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Association) Member Show Award of Merit
2020 Aug 3rd Place: Professional Division Danville Paint the Town Plein Air painting event
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2025 Nov - Dec IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Association) Member Show
2025 June - July Holliday Park Nature Center Solo Exhibition “Rural Harmonies”
2025 May - June Artist’s Own Solo Exhibition “Everything in His Season”
2025 April - June New Harmony Hoosier Art Salon Field to Finish Exhibition
2024 Nov - Dec IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Association) Member Show
2024 July - Sept Adult Visual Art Exhibition, Putnam County Museum, Greencastle, Indiana
2024 March Ouabache Land Conservancy Annual Fundraiser & Two Person Show
2024 April 10 Fold Projects "Moonlight Sonata" Group Exhibition
2023 Nov-Dec IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Association) Member Show
2023 July Solo Exhibition: "Preservation," Swope Art Museum Terre Haute, Indiana
2022 Oct - Dec Arts Illiana "Small Art 2022" Exhibition
2022 Nov-Dec IPAPA (Indiana Plein Air Painters Association) Member Show
2022 October Greencastle Arts Council Critique Group Show: "Progress"
2022 May Two Person Exhibition: Receive: A Mother & Daughter Exhibition Memorial Gallery, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2022 May Participation in the On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Course hosted by the Indiana Arts
2022 May Hoosier Women in Art: Identity Garfield Park Arts Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
2022 March 1st Annual Midwest Juried Exhibit, Hamilton County Artist Association, Noblesville, Indiana
2021 July - Sept Living Local: Adult Visual Art Exhibition, Putnam County Museum, Greencastle, Indiana
2021 Aug - Sept Gallery on the Square, Danville “Paint the Town” Plein Air event: Displayed entry
2021 March - May Solo Exhibition, First Brush of Spring, Black Cat Gallery, Greencastle Indiana
2021 April “First Brush of Spring” IPAPA paintout New Harmony, IN
2020 Aug Danville Paint the Town Plein Air painting event
2020 Aug - Dec Gallery on the Square, Danville, IN
2020 Featured Artist: Wasser Brewing Company gallery space
2020 July - Sept Locality: Adult Art Exhibition Putnam County Museum
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2024 BYU-Pathway Worldwide Student Certificate in Social Media Marketing
2018 -2023 Greencastle Arts Council Secretary, Vice President, President (2020-2021)
2020 Virtual Art Academy student
2000 B.A. Visual Arts - Brigham Young University