“Feeling awe cracks us open. It is a vulnerable experience; it softens us in a time when it’s so easy to harden.” Katherine May

I’m a visual artist, a magpie of words, a hoarder of ideas. I’m curious about the inbetween, the just out of sight, the underneath and the other side; the way through and the edges. I’m Hannah, the founder of ‘All Is Not Lost Art Studio’, and I aspire to be a resilient purveyor of dreams and hope.

My paintings belong to the realms of Elsewhere, paying tribute to sights I’ve seen, tales I’ve heard, places I’ve felt, and the spaces in between. Since writing my dissertation at Uni I’ve been in determined pursuit of the visual sublime via liminality. Lately I’ve been attracted to in-between times, persisting folklore, portals, transitions, awe and enchantment, and our connection, our place, in all that.

I work mainly in inks and bleach, with gilded detailing on paper and raw canvas. Sometimes I use tattoo ink and antique engravings, sometimes I draw using a good old 2b pencil, and paint in watercolour.

I love the work of the Romanticists, the enveloping paintings of Abstract-Expressionists and Whistlers evocative Nocturnes, site specific art by James Turrell and Antony Gormley have long inspired me too.