Born in London, I have always drawn and painted. I started my formal art education at Sir John Cass School of Art, later attending Brighton University. 

Having spent some time living in the Far East, I have travelled widely, camera always at hand, and have a large portfolio of photographs.

Originally a very figurative painter, enjoying domestic still life in detailed water colour, I have latterly developed a strong interest in abstract and semi-abstract composition.  My digital cameras, together with a computer, have become my sketchbook, giving me an image bank from which to work.

Apart from natural forms like seed heads and flowers, I am interested in dereliction, reflection, the landscape of the road, and in man-made structures within the landscape.  In each case, although the original image has integrity of its own, I am usually more interested in the form and pattern found when the picture is cropped.   Saturation and other adjustments reveal areas of colour and texture that can be isolated to create a new image, which is worked up into a large-scale painting.  I principally use a palette knife, often starting with a thin wash of a contrasting colour to that which I expect to be the dominating one, and then build up with thin layers, almost like stains, before beginning to build up areas of texture.   I have found inspiration in views as diverse as road markings, a reflection in a shop window and a dead car rusting in a desert.  Recently I have become interested in drawing for its own sake again, and work in a highly detailed style on small subjects and portraits.  I also make items of beaded jewellery.  I work at my home studio, and accept commissions.  You can contact me HERE.

 

Now settled in East Anglia for a number of years, in my new location, I am now a member of Eye Arts Guild (www.eyeartsguild.org.uk), and regularly exhibit with them.  I have also begun to exhibit at St Margaret's, The Church of Art , in Norwich.

 

You can also find me on Facebook at Hannah Muskett - Artist.