Hannah Woodman
Hannah Woodman is a British landscape artist, born in 1968 in Totnes, Devon. She studied at Exeter College of Art and Design and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, before training to teach at the London Institute of Education. Having taught and lectured in schools, museums and galleries for six years she turned to painting full time. Since then she has had a series of sell out one-woman shows and her work is now held in private and public collections both at home and abroad. Hannah currently lives in Cornwall with her husband and three children.
“I enjoy the process of working in layers, building up a density of marks, both deliberate and spontaneous, constantly agitating the surface of the picture – scraping, scratching, splattering, palette knife work etc.
“I’m particularly drawn to the more bleak areas, where the human presence is more restrained. Who lives in those cottages miles from anywhere? Where does that lane lead – will it get me to the sea? I still get a feeling of nervous excitement when I stumble across a quiet patch of landscape that seeems relatively unvisited. I suppose more than anything I want to capture that quality in my work. I would like people to feel that quiet solitude when they look at my paintings and put themselves there just for a moment.” Hannah Woodman
