Hannah Howard

Bio

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"I am a follower of Jesus, wife to a loving man, and mother to three rambunctious children. After those key parts of my identity, I am an artist, primarily focusing on watercolor. 

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"I was born Hannah Joy Dorrell, moved to Blacksburg, VA at five and spent many of my formative years maneuvering scissors through paper and making things with whatever was at hand. Because of my father’s work, I spent many summers, and a gap year, in Japan which influenced my art greatly. I studied indigo dyeing techniques under Wako Karube while there and returned home to get a degree from Radford University in Art Education. After university I spent a year in South Korea teaching English, got married to my love, Stephen Howard, and then returned to the US and taught briefly as an elementary art teacher. 

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"Although I continue to explore a variety of art forms, I have always loved painting best. When I entered the phase of mothering, I found it challenging to create, but also essential to sanity and I adapted by primarily using watercolor paint while my children were small and I have continued for the last decade to improve and grow in the medium. 

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"My travels have had a lasting influence which can be seen clearly in my landscape art. I am also largely inspired by the nature of the Appalachian Mountains and rural landscapes around me. 

 

"My goal is to utilize my talents to bless others through visual art that brings joy, whimsy, and connection."​