Hanna Bell

Joined Artfinder: Oct. 2020

Artworks for sale: 124

(27)

United Kingdom

Updates from Hanna Bell's studio

  • New painting in progress

    New painting in progress

    New series of paintings based on trauma and fears

    18 October 2022
    Current work

    Current work

    Painting series based on trauma and fears. I have just started buying antique and preloved frames to restore and frame my own work.

    18 October 2022
    Reclining nude on a Beach 2

    Reclining nude on a Beach 2

    Working progress in my studio today

    31 October 2021
    Study for 7 deadly virtues series

    Study for 7 deadly virtues series

    My study in Acrylic and Pastels for my current series of work

    28 October 2021
    Sleeping Nude Pastel Drawing

    Sleeping Nude Pastel Drawing

    Work In Progress in my studio 06.09.21

    07 September 2021
    “Soul Mates”

    “Soul Mates”

    A pastel drawing of a pair of horses; my current WIP

    30 July 2021
    “Life, Death & Botox”

    “Life, Death & Botox”

    #WIP in my studio

    08 June 2021
    A Burlesque Lady

    A Burlesque Lady

    Here is a sketch from the Burlesque Life Drawing class I recently attended online.

    01 June 2021
    “Life, Death, Stem Cells & Botox” (After L.Friedlander)

    “Life, Death, Stem Cells & Botox” (After L.Friedlander)

    Update on my current painting with revised title. I wanted a title that sends a clue as to the meaning of the animal skulls as I have been getting feedback that the painting is “evil” and “scary”. The painting is more than a comment or irony take on cosmetic enhancement. It is also about human life experiences brought about by trauma; for example when we contemplate death through illness and then later survival through recovery. The skulls are symbolic of humankind’s use of animals for experimentation in research. Remember Dolly the cloned sheep?

    31 May 2021
    “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (after L. Friedlander)”

    “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (after L. Friedlander)”

    This large painting is work in progress 100cm x 100cm x4cm and will shortly be for sale in my Artfinder shop. Featuring three female nudes bearing animal skulls; set in a landscape of silver birch trees and flowers (to be added to the foreground) it brings together in one painting all the main subjects of my previous works to date. It even shows the influence of my first commission dealing with humanised animals. As we gaze at the nudes they bring us into focus with our mortality (our naked states when we arrive and leave our lives). Their skulls remind us that mankind is just another animal amongst many others on the earth; fragile & vulnerable underneath. Modern young women already beautiful; cut and inject their bodies for so-called perfection but to some actually become more grotesque. We are all the same underneath if you scratch away the surface... or are we? (This painting recognises the amazing work of photographer Lee Friedlander in his book “Nudes”).

    26 May 2021
    “Breaking Away From Convention”

    “Breaking Away From Convention”

    This is a recent extra large abstract painting that I completed which reveals my love of abstraction and the influence of great modern abstract artists like Kandinsky and Klee.

    01 May 2021
    The Finished Commission

    The Finished Commission

    09 March 2021