Hannah Rollings, Where the Pines Meet the Sea, 2025, acrylic and vinyl on framer's board, A3  

In 2014, Hannah embarked on a practice-led AHRC-funded PhD through Kingston University and the London Doctoral Design Centre, looking at picturing trees 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 developing site-specific interactive work that sought to encourage a reconnection with nature. Shaping and developing an expanded artistic practice previously fractured and stifled by publishing and commercial avenues into an immersive on-site practice. 

Encompassing both studio and plein-air painting, Hannah seeks to connect with her surroundings through an immersive painting experience, exploring an emotive response to colour and mark-making, most recently as an artist-in-residence with SeeFood Room Gallery in Hong Kong with a resulting solo show in 2024 and culminating in a practice that sits somewhere between abstraction and representation. 

“My practice focuses on picturing landscapes to imbue and reconsider our connection with nature. Reflecting and considering where I, as an artist, position myself and further notions of the figure in the landscape to address and reconsider broader issues within a changing world that would benefit from a rewilding to reverse some negative impacts."