Hanna Rose is an Australian abstract artist, based in Melbourne. A graduate Bachelor Fine Arts, RMIT, her work examines how emotional memory can be expressed through colour and signature like brushstrokes.  

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"My primary objective is to paint from emotional memory, channelling my inner child - the most authentic and uninhibited version of my creative self. I am particularly interested in how environments make us feel. Specifically, moments and places that bring comfort and how that can imprint on our memory.

 

I am fascinated by the human experience, our relatability and common threads. My work is a dialogue between memories and the intuitive present moment act of painting. It is purely abstract in process and the act of painting and using colour 

​as an expression is what excites me. The way paint interacts and moves across the canvas and how I engage in this process is immersive. 

 

I have an obsession with brushstrokes and the compositional tension between colour and texture. In the studio, my practice is driven by spontaneity, intuition and the continual process of problem solving and finding news ways to challenge and evolve my process. 

 

I have studied at length and am naturally drawn to abstract expressionism - it is a language to me. I am strongly influenced by founders Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and Grace Hartigan and later Phillip Guston."

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Hanna's works feature in Australian and international collections.

She is based in Armadale, Victoria, Australia