Hannah Rollings, Punch Bowl Horizon, 2024, emulsions and ink on handmade paper, 31x22cm

Hannah Kershaw (Rollings) (b.1985, UK). In 2014, Hannah embarked on a practice-based AHRC-funded PhD through Kingston University and the London Doctoral Design Centre, looking at picturing trees, which is where her love of nature and the pull of the outdoors gained further importance in her practice. Working collaboratively with the Forestry Commission and school children, she developed site-specific, interactive work that sought to encourage a reconnection with nature, 'From Screen to Green'.

By painting en plein air, Hannah seeks to connect with her surroundings through an immersive painting experience that explores an emotive response to colour and mark-making. This process culminates into a practice that sits somewhere between abstraction and representation.