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“Hallam’s choice of subject matter is conservative, even pointedly commonplace: views through a window, interiors, still life, people by the sea. However, there is nothing conservative or commonplace about the treatment. In 1994 I wrote of this work: ” …treated here without a trace of that secondhand softness that sometimes tries to pass for the Bonnardesque … the paintings are tough and put together with a cool lightness of hand which conceals the lucid pictorial intelligence which has gone into their making.”

What I had not taken wholly on board at that time is the highly evolved artifice …