Hannah Battershell
About
My name is Hannah Battershell and I am a self-taught artist living and working in Bristol. My work is driven by a fascination for materials and a love of storytelling. The pieces I make include intricately layered paper collages, detailed cyanotype prints, and miniature paintings, amongst other things. They often depict dreamlike spaces, filled with a strong sense of atmosphere and narrative. The abiding mood is playful strangeness. I like to create pieces that ask the viewer to come and peer into another world up-close.
My career highlights so far have included featuring in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition on multiple occasions, speaking about my work at University College London in a festival celebrating Fairy Tales, and collaborating with a scientist at ZSL, Institute of Zoology.
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Person
I am influenced by a lot of different art but someone I remember being exposed to from an early age is Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525–1569 the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his atmospheric landscapes, peasant scenes and mysterious religious and allegorical paintings. I remember looking at his work and thinking, ‘art is magic.’
Place
My grandparents lived in Llantrisant in Wales and I think visiting this place from a young age had a profound effect on me and my aesthetic. Their garden was full of frogs and flowers and I spent a lot of time out there looking closely at all the small growing things. The journey to their house was full of strange and beautiful landmarks: a fairytale castle popping up through the trees and a statue in the centre of the town of a druid holding a flaming torch and a crescent moon. To my child’s eyes it was a place where things from stories existed in normal, everyday life.
Object
It has to be a book, probably the Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.
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