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 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.  Although my paintings are impressionistic or abstract, I also enjoy the process of highly detailed drawing, with a variety of subjects, both domestic and plein air.  I have recently become interested in collage, composed of gelli printed patterns and textures layered together in abstract images. 

 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 also exhibit at St Margaret's Gallery, St Benedict's Street, and at the Forum, both in Norwich.  My collages can be found at Anteros in Fye Bridge Street.

 

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