Dennis, Cape Cod, Mayflower Beach, Cape Cod Seascapes

Both of these are offered with a limited time Valentine's Day Special on my blog only for $500 each, oil, unframed.

They elicit those warm lovely days on the Cape when all is right. What a lovely Valentine's gift or other gift: birthday, anniversary...new summer home...or just for yourself.

A frame can be added for an additional fee. Shipping is a small flat fee for continental U.S.

To send me an email to hold one of them (there is only one of each), please click here soniahale1@gmail.com.

Gay Head, Oak Bluffs, Views of Vineyard Sound: Cape Cod Seascapes

11 x 14 oil, unframed, $500 each, original oil paintings of Martha's Vineyard

I am offering these paintings at $500 each. They are priced much higher on my website, but I am offering a limited time Valentine's Day special on my blog.

A frame can be added for an additional fee. Shipping is a small flat fee for continental U.S.

To send me an email to hold one or more of them (there is only one of each), please click here soniahale1@gmail.com.

Valentine's Day, Anniversary Gifts, Birthday Gifts and Luxury Gifts

For those who are thinking ahead to anniversaries and other special occasions, a gift certificate for a commissioned painting can be a thoughtful and memorable gift. Contact me for me for more details.

The beauty of this gift is it will never need batteries or gather dust in a corner!

To learn more about how to commission a portrait for your loved one, please click here.

Sargent Watercolors (and oils) at Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The Sargent Watercolors exhibition is one of the finest I've attended. Not only were there watercolors, but oils so that you could truly revel in what Sargent was communicating about his feeling for his subject.

It was moving to see in person his gorgeous paintings of his family including his sister Emily Sargent and niece Rose-Marie a frequent model. Seeing photographs of his settings in a few sparse places gave more information that I appreciated.

Sargent did not like to let go (or sell) of his watercolors and I could well see why. This is a fantastic quote from the exhbition catalog: "Sargent's watercolors 'were not to be obtained for love or money, but to fall to the lot of such of his friends as wisely as marry for them for wedding gifts or tumble out of a gondala and need consolation.' " Written by Edward V. Lucas, a popular Bristish writer.


Sonia Hale is an award-winning, nationally-collected artist in Boston. She paints commissioned portraits for families and institutions nationwide. Her original landscape and still life oil paintings can be purchased at http://www.soniahale.com. For more information, go to http://www.soniahale.com. You can reach her by email at soniahale1@gmail.com.

Lilacs in Basket

These were painted from life in my studio.



Lilacs in Basket
oil on linen
12" x 16"


To go to my floral paintings gallery

Sonia Hale is an award-winning, nationally-collected artist in Boston. She paints commissioned portraits for families and institutions nationwide. Her original landscape and still life oil paintings can be purchased at http://www.soniahale.com. For more information, go to http://www.soniahale.com. You can reach her by email at soniahale1@gmail.com.

Another Landscape commission in my plans

I'm pleased to have just accepted another landscape commmission for a local client. These commissions are wonderful gifts for anniversaries, weddings and birthdays. I will wait to post my photo of the evening nightscape which was approved last week (without any changes,) as that is a gift to be given this summer.

Landscape commissions:
I work from my own reference materials and also work on commission, so if you have a dream seascape/ landscape image, please let me know. These make enduring and memorable gifts! ( My email is soniahale1@gmail.com.)


Sonia Hale is an award-winning, nationally-collected artist in Boston. She paints commissioned portraits for families and institutions nationwide. Her original landscape and still life oil paintings can be purchased at http://www.soniahale.com. For more information, go to http://www.soniahale.com. You can reach her by email at soniahale1@gmail.com.

Portrait Gallery and Fine Art: Gift Certificates

Ask about my gift certificates. Portraits make memorable special occasion gifts! In addition I do house portraits.

—Birthday Gifts
—Anniversary Gifts
—Valentines and Mother's Day gifts
—other Holiday gifts

Sonia Hale is an award-winning, nationally-collected artist in Boston. She paints commissioned portraits for families and institutions nationwide. Her original landscape and still life oil paintings can be purchased at http://www.soniahale.com. For more information, go to http://www.soniahale.com. You can reach her by email at soniahale1@gmail.com.