Hannah Davies

Hannah Davies was born in Cambridge. Following her art foundation there, she moved to Cornwall, completing a BA(hons) in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts. After falling in love with Cornwall and the sea, she has continued to live and paint there.

Her oil paintings explore the theme of reflections, and are inspired by reflections of the Cornish seascape and townscape in cafe windows. Hannah’s work achieves a mysterious atmosphere by using transparent layers of oil paint, built up slowly, so that each layer is still visible on the canvas. On a glass surface, inside and outside are merged, mixing private and public spaces, and producing strange and surprising areas.

Hannah’s dreamlike reflections draw the eye in, mesmerising in their simultaneous sense of movement and calming stillness.

 All is in between. The reflection holds all images in unison.

 Hannah’s pure love of drawing and process are shown in her “light patches”. An exploratory technique of building up layers of light on a canvas. Light filters through a window for a fleeting moment and is given a permanence in her drawing. A memory of a hazy impression, long forgotten.

Hannah was recently selected for the Trinity Buoy Warf Drawing prize.