Moondancing

“Moondance I, II, and III”, 24 x 24 x 2 inches each, Textile paintings (hand-dyed fabrics, stitching) mounted on cradled birch panels © Ayn Hanna

I’m in the final stretch of preparing for the ACC Baltimore Show – less than 2 weeks to go – and steadily making progress on completing the many […]

Fly Me to the Moon

Yellow. It seems my most favorite color lately. Some have argued that it’s actually green.

LineScape #22 – Window Seat, 18.5 x 30 in. © Ayn Hanna

A deconstructed dye drawing on fabric

with thread as well

LineScape #22 – Window Seat (detail) © Ayn […]

New Work – “Mad Hatter”

New Work. Fewer Words. More Story.

"Mad Hatter" © Ayn Hanna Textile Painting, 29.5 x 27.5 in

"Mad Hatter" (detail) © Ayn Hanna

"Mad Hatter" (detail) © Ayn Hanna

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A little GREEN for the Irish in all of us!

Happy St. Pat’s Day! Although mostly Swedish, I have some Irish roots too. Here’s some GREEN in honor of the day….

LineScape #21 textile painting (WIP) detail #1

This piece has been in progress for a couple years now. I’ve recently been re-inspired to finish it as it plays well with the other […]

Color and Dreams

Carpet is in! Painting is finished! And we’re on the verge of getting the living room, bath room, and dining room back together again.

(clockwise from upper left) living room with new ceiling, carpet, lighting, and paint; bathroom with new carpet, paint; new ceiling fan; new carpet on the stairs.

After a month […]

Art and Garden Parties

Weekend Road Trip – Art Parties

Is it really Monday? The weekend was a blur – It’s great to have such a creative family, although 2 solo show openings (one in Denver and one in Steamboat) on the same weekend is pretty over the top.

My partner, Barbara Gilhooly had a reception for her solo […]

LineScape #14 – An Entangled Dream LineScape

Continued from here and here, I’ve now finished my first piece in the LineScape series which contains some significant hand stitching. I’m really loving the look and feel of the hand stitching as well as the meditative (problem solving) time I get while doing the stitching.

LineScape #14, 42" x 36", (cotton fabrics […]

Continuing and Combining Old with New

This piece is continued from here.

Work in Progress – state 5 ©Ayn Hanna

Combining my layered techniques now also with something new for me – hand stitching. As this piece is evolving, it’s becoming an important part of my story, a combination and convergence of many things, with ties back to multiple […]

Cloth (and Thought) Winding and Weaving

Work in Progress this week:

Work in progress state 4 ©Ayn Hanna

It’s evolving. Here’s the previous photo I posted of this piece a couple weeks ago:

Work in progress state 3 ©Ayn Hanna

And I’m continuing on my first attempts at cloth weaving. Here’s the first of the woven blocks […]

In Fits and Starts: Another Work in Progress Wednesday

More pictures, less words.

Here’s the piece I’ve been working on. See how it’s changed in the past week?

Work in progress ©Ayn Hanna

Little by little it’s revealing itself to me.

One moment, I have no idea what’s next, but force (discipline) myself to stay with it and next thing I know, […]