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I’m still basking in the warmth of all the appreciation I felt from the audience during my artist talk Monday night at the FRCQ meeting in Denver – what a wonderful group! I shared my life journey of becoming an artist, my path from printmaking to textiles, and discussed my creative process and inspiration as […] the exterminator told us. “They can make themselves small to squeeze through the tiniest of holes in the floor and then “poof” back up like umbrellas.” "NYC Journal", Artist Book, 9"x6", original woodcuts and linocuts on rice paper, text printed on rives heavyweight, hand bound with linen cover) We’d been having a problem […] For those that haven’t been to visit my studio, or that have only been here during planned Studio Tour visits (when my studio is all cleaned up for visitors!), I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what the studio really looks like most of the time, when I’m in the middle of my creative […] LineScape #12 (Fields and Highways) ©2011 Ayn Hanna, 31.5"x40", Textile Painting (cotton fabrics hand-dyed and silk screened by the artist, cotton stitching) M.A.P.S. * M.A.P.S * M.A.P.S Remember those treasure maps from teen adventure stories, oftentimes one of the few visual pages in a paperback full of text? And board games too, the […] work in progress ©Ayn Hanna (MX reactive dye breakdown printing on cotton fabric) (I have ~14 works in progress in the studio right now and I’ll share some of them in upcoming posts. The one above was made using a breakdown dye printing process, demonstrated in this video by Committed to Cloth.) Change […] Living room picture window frame which is being replaced by a large sliding glass door. Change is rarely a comfortable thing for we humans, even when it’s “good” change. We tend to be so “change adverse” that we’d rather stay stuck in a less-than-ideal-situation than risk making a change that would get us […] My hand-dyed fabric stacks An Informal Fabric Stack Project Last week on her blog, artist Lisa Call had a fun idea – have each of us that has stacks of fabric take photos of our stacks and post them on our blogs and then add a comment on her blog, so that we […] "Along The Way" (detail) ©Ayn Hanna 45"x18", Textile painting (discharged whole cloth cotton, cotton batting, cotton thread) It’s been over a month since my last post, a rather long unplanned blog break. Huge changes taking place, and I’ve been thinking a lot – about cycles and circles and changes, completion and initiation, deadlines […] I haven’t made many self portraits lately, but I did make several of them during my art school days. "Self Portrait with Apron" © 1990 Ayn Hanna, 60" x 48", mixed media The image above is a large mixed media self portrait drawing I did in grad school. I spent so many hours […] "Wall Drawing#3" ©2010 Ayn Hanna, 18" x 17.5", Textile Painting (cotton & velvet fabrics, fabric paint, cotton embroidery threads) I started this latest piece from the Wall Drawing series during a Leslie Gabrielse workshop in September. I first posted some thoughts from this workshop experience here. While the subject matter and imagery are […] |
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