Studio Selection

Studio Selection

Emerald City

Emerald City presents a dense, luminous surface where green dominates in layered, fractured planes, suggesting abundance pressed into form. The texture of watercolor paper remains active beneath the paint, lending a tactile softness that contrasts with the visual richness above it.

80x80 cm
Watercolor paper, acrylic
2024

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.
Original contemporary abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born artist based in Shanghai.

Everything Else is a Journey

Everything Else Is a Journey frames the work as a statement about process over destination. What matters is not arrival, but movement—between states, ideas, and identities.
The painting suggests that clarity emerges through contrast, and meaning through progression, even when the path appears fragmented.

120x90 cm
Acrylic
2024

Original abstract painting by Keith Hall featuring layered textures, colour, and expressive mark-making.

Serenity

Everything Else Is a Journey frames the work as a statement about process over destination. What matters is not arrival, but movement—between states, ideas, and identities.
The painting suggests that clarity emerges through contrast, and meaning through progression, even when the path appears fragmented.

120x90 cm
Acrylic
2024

Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall, created with acrylic, pigment, and mixed media on canvas.

Alice’s Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland: The idea that we live in a Wonderland—a world characterized by absurdity, shifting realities, and challenging conventions—is a popular modern interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This concept is deeply linked to art, specifically Surrealism and Abstract Art, which use distortion and irrationality to represent the fractured nature of modern life.

100x60 cm
Acrylic
2024

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.

Gaze of Devotion

Gaze of Devotion becomes a quiet, human story when read through the lens of love passing between two building windows.
The abstraction resolves into an intimate urban moment, where distance, structure, and color carry emotion.

80x80 cm
Acrylic
2024

Contemporary abstract painting by Keith Hall combining expressive gesture, texture, and light.

Traces of a Beautiful Mind

The painting portrays genius as a disciplined architecture of thought. Intelligence is shown as the ability to isolate truth, connect it cleanly to other truths, and leave the rest behind. Beauty arises from lucidity—the quiet confidence of ideas that know where they belong. It reveals genius as precision made visible. It is a portrait of thinking that is exact, connected, and deeply ordered, where clarity itself becomes the highest form of expression.

180x100 cm
Acrylic, watercolor paper.
2025

Original abstract painting by Keith Hall featuring layered textures, colour, and expressive mark-making.

Interwoven Filigree Nexus

Interwoven Filigree Nexus points to interconnected thought, cultural layering, or spiritual alignment. It reflects a worldview where meaning is created through careful linkage, and the whole is greater than the sum of its delicate parts. In essence, the phrase names a state of harmonious complexity: refined elements woven together into a living centre of connection, balance, and depth.

100x100 cm
Acrylic, gold, silver leaf.
2025

Trinity of Harmony

On a spiritual level, the trinity can be understood as mind, body, and spirit, or stillness, motion, and awareness. Harmony arises when these aspects are not fragmented but resonate together.
My work suggests alignment rather than perfection—a state of attuned coexistence.

120x80 cm
Acrylic
2025

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.

The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us becomes a visual language for emotional closeness paired with separation. It captures the fragile condition of being seen but not fully reached, together yet alone, where the smallest gap carries the greatest meaning.

90x60 cm
Acrylic
2025

Original contemporary abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born artist based in Shanghai.
Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall, created with acrylic, pigment, and mixed media on canvas.

The Stillness That Moves

The Stillness That Moves reaches beyond references to cherry blossoms or spring. It reflects a quieter rhythm of being—the way life reveals itself without effort, how movement lives inside calm.
The work lingers as both an inhale and a pause.

100x70 cm
Acrylic
2025

Solstice Reverie

Solstice Reverie evokes a reflective, dreamlike state shaped by the turning point of the solstice. It speaks to a moment of pause and inward attention, when light undergoes a profound shift. Within that transition lies a sense of wonder and transformation—an awareness of change unfolding at a quiet yet pivotal threshold.

100x100 cm
Acrylic
2025

Keith Hall original contemporary artwork exploring atmosphere, structure, and emotional abstraction.
Original abstract painting by Keith Hall featuring layered textures, colour, and expressive mark-making.

Urban Palimpsest

Urban Palimpsest evokes a city shaped by time—a-built landscape marked by accumulation and change. The work reveals layers of history, texture, and memory embedded within its surface, inviting viewers to sense what has been built over, erased, and reimagined. Rather than naming a specific source, the title opens space for discovering hidden depths and overlapping narratives, suggesting time, transformation, and complexity woven into the urban fabric.

100x100 cm
Acrylic
2025

Echoes of the Northern Rows

Echoes of the Northern Rows draws on the character of Yorkshire and Newcastle’s iconic terraced streets. The work reflects their layered forms and the lived histories of the working-class communities shaped within them. It stands as a quiet homage to the resilience, memory, and enduring stories held in these northern landscapes.

100x100 cm
Acrylic
2025

Original painting by Keith Hall exploring abstraction through gesture, rhythm, and layered surfaces.

Facades in Flux

Facades in Flux examines the shifting skins of the city, tracing how building exteriors evolve over time. The work focuses on the dialogue between architectural materials and environmental forces—weather, pollution, and oxidation—revealing change as an ongoing process.
As surfaces are exposed, colors drift, textures surface, and patterns take shape, forming a living record of a structure’s relationship with its surroundings.

100x100 cm
Acrylic
2025

Original abstract artwork by Keith Hall, contemporary artist known for intuitive, process-driven painting.

Eden

Rather than depicting Eden literally, the work captures its spiritual essence. It feels like a fragment of an early biblical vision: paradise as a living force, fragile and full, held in balance before loss.
The painting becomes less about place and more about belief, memory, and the enduring presence of the sacred.

100x100 cm
Acrylic
2025

Original abstract artwork by Keith Hall, contemporary artist known for intuitive, process-driven painting.
Keith Hall contemporary abstract painting inspired by movement, light, and material exploration.

Faust’s Mirror

Faust’s Mirror becomes a psychological plane: a place where aspiration and reckoning coexist. The painting holds the tension of self-examination, suggesting that what Faust ultimately confronts is not the world or the divine, but himself.

100x100 cm
Acrylic, silver leaf
2025

Inheritance of Green

This is a meditation on transformation- how life dissolves into decay, and decay gives life its next form. The work draws from the Taoist sense of balance, where opposites are not in conflict but in conversation, each completing the other.

60x50 cm
Acrylic
2025

Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall exploring gesture, material, and atmosphere.
Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall exploring gesture, material, and atmosphere.

Arcane Rhythms

This work explores the mysterious and intricate patterns found in nature. It delves into the hidden sequences and flows that shape the natural world, revealing the subtle connections and harmonies that often go unnoticed.

100x80 cm
Acrylic
2025

Floral Genesis

This is not merely a depiction of flowers but a meditation on evolution itself-a reflection on how creation is layered, chaotic and yet profoundly ordered.

110 cm diameter
Acrylic
2025

Keith Hall original contemporary artwork exploring atmosphere, structure, and emotional abstraction.
Original abstract artwork by Keith Hall, contemporary artist known for intuitive, process-driven painting.

Lotus of the Dark

Lotus of the Dark contemplates emergence and transformation through abstraction. The circular form becomes a vessel for stillness, while layers of dark blue tones evoke the slow unfolding of awareness from obscurity. Drawing on the Buddhist symbolism of the lotus rising unstained from the mud, the work suggests that illumination is not separate from darkness but born within it.

120 cm diameter
Acrylic
2025

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.

Silent Witness

This is an abstract meditation on the omnipresence of cameras in everyday life. The painting explores the unseen act of observation, where mechanical eyes quietly record movement, behavior, and routine without emotion or voice.

100x80 cm
Acrylic
2026

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.
Original abstract painting by Keith Hall featuring layered textures, colour, and expressive mark-making.

Shepherd Delight

This work references the traditional English weather proverb: “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.”
This work explores the intersection of landscape and atmosphere translating the transient beauty of a pink evening sky of this centuries old saying.

100x70 cm
Acrylic
2026

Veins of Light / Veil of Sky

Reflects the first day of Chinese New Year- a moment of renewal and the welcoming of prosperity into the home. Sweeping arcs move like rising tides, symbolizing the flow of wealth, opportunity, and positive energy.

120×80 cm
Acrylic
2026

Abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born contemporary artist living and working in Shanghai.
Original contemporary abstract painting by Keith Hall, London-born artist based in Shanghai.

Waves of Fortune

Reflects the first day of Chinese New Year- a moment of renewal and the welcoming of prosperity into the home. Sweeping arcs move like rising tides, symbolizing the flow of wealth, opportunity, and positive energy.

120×80 cm
Acrylic
2026

Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall exploring gesture, material, and atmosphere.
Contemporary abstract artwork by Keith Hall exploring gesture, material, and atmosphere.

Woven Bond

A Meditation on the primal connection between mother and sibling—blood, breath and shared origin woven into texture and red.
Two beings, entangled yet distinct, held together in the architecture of care.

120x100 cm
Acrylic
2026

Original abstract painting by Keith Hall featuring layered textures, colour, and expressive mark-making.