Meet Hannah!
I am an artist based at SAW Studio for Arts and Works in Carbondale, CO. I am predominantly an oil painter, but also delve into block printing and collage. My work is fascinated with the human figure, human spaces, and our complex connection to the natural world.
What are you working on right now?
I have been working on a series of large-scale figurative oil paintings, incorporating pattern in a style I must have absorbed from my Uncle's Matisse copies hanging in my childhood home. These are painted from photos of my friends that captured moments that spoke to me for a multitude of reasons. I am taking a break from this series at the moment to paint 10" x 10" urban/natural nighttime scenes. These are driven by power combinations and my developing sense of abstracted brushwork.
Do you like to win or hate to lose?
It's lucky I don't hate losing, because as an emerging artist, I am throwing my work in front of anyone who will look at it. I do like to win every now and then—it keeps me going.
What is your favorite part of your job?
My part time job is working as a graphic design/studio assistant contract worker for another artist, Isa Catto. My favorite part of the job is developing patterns derived from her artwork for spoonflower.com and for various products, and getting exposure to original patterns from thousands of artists worldwide. I take inspiration from these patterns and use them in my own artwork.
Where do you find inspiration?
I went to school for organismal biology and ecology at Colorado College because I was curious about how the living things around me were built. Now that I have my degree, I am not using it to pursue a career in biology but rather more subconsciously to inform my artwork. I am obsessed with the miracle of evolution and the tiny molecular machinery that we are made of. You literally cannot make up the story of how all life was derived from one globby cell in the ocean billions of years ago. Knowing this, I am inspired by how insignificant I am, and also how improbable the human brain I think with is. I am inspired by small but poignant human moments that arose from an impossibly long lineage of our species' change and intellectual growth. I am inspired by the beauty we see in each other, which can be traced to chemical reactions in our brains but in spite of that is no less meaningful.
Get in touch with Hannah
Instagram: @_hannahstoll
Website: https://hannahsuttonstoll.com
Email: hsuttonstoll@gmail.com
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