Isadora Hale

Isadora Hale lives with her husband and their three beautiful children in sunny Tucson, Arizona where she loves to draw and paint either in her studio, or outside, surrounded by birds, trees and flowers. She finds Arizona to be absolutely gorgeous, and feels truly thankful to be an Arizona artist, with the inspiration of the desert all around her. Isadora grew up in Northern California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has always loved anything involving either creativity or animals. When she wasn’t riding horses or playing with her dogs, she loved painting, drawing and writing. She went on to study Creative Writing and Art Studio in college, where she was thrilled to have her art featured in in her first art shows. While Isadora deviated a bit from fine art for awhile, delving into the digital arts via graphic design and website development, she is very happy to be back in the thick of it now, painting, drawing and creating art every day. Isadora’s art encourages people to see their surroundings not just as a moment in time, but as something affected by their specific life experiences. She believes that individual cultures, family dynamics, major life events, and even the pop culture people have consumed can create entirely different perceptions as they move through their lives. Appreciating how diverse experiences can affect perception creates empathy and understanding, and she hopes to encourage this through her art. Isadora paints with an often surreal and humorous twist, adding lightness and fun to art that has a more complex meaning for those who choose to look deeper. Isadora received the Arizona Commission on the Arts Research & Development Grant in 2023, and the Carmody Foundation “Art for Good” Grant in 2024.