Hannah Gilson

Hannah Gilson is an artist and illustrator based in London, who has worked on editorial illustration commissions for the likes of ES magazine, as well as custom event illustration. Although she does enjoy working on commissions, Hannah has been increasingly interested in developing and broadening her skill set within her artistic practice with the aim of meeting a wider audience.

She has recently had the opportunity to design a card range for Woodmansterne which is set to launch in late Summer/ Autumn 2022. Hannah has also previously sold work in IKEA, and currently has prints in the house and home sections of big retailers such as Anthropologie and LaRoudete. As well as pushing her work commercially within retail, she has also made her debut in the contemporary print world through Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, where her print Flowers was short listed for the Boodle Hatfield Print making prize. Another work, Wonder, which was showcased at the fair, has also been selected for the ‘Lets Fill This House With Art’ programme at House of Hackney – a great initiative which gives 100% of sales to the artists. Hannah also recently took part in The Other Art Fair for the first time, and is looking forward to more opportunities that may come from that.

Image courtesy of House of Hackney

Hannah trained in Fine Art, specialising in painting, at Winchester School or Art. She later trained as a teacher at the Institute of Education, UCL. She tells us; “I have learnt more about my own practice through delivering art education than at any point in my own art education”.

Each of Hannah’s works begins as a sketch, from which she draws out compositions as they come to mind. She describes; “Many of my more successful prints literally come as they are fully ‘finished’ in my minds eye and I will draw them out digitally using Photoshop“. She then artworks the design and preps it ready for screen printing. Each of her prints is typically released in an edition of 30-50, and includes hand finished motifs.

Hannah enjoys scanning in different textures and hand drawn elements into Photoshop, which she then combines with digital drawing using her Wacom tablet. Since getting into screen printing, she has started to consider her colour palette more – thinking about how the illustration will translate into a print.

Describing herself as a “magpie”, Hannah takes inspiration from a wide range of sources including music, art history, fashion, interiors, architecture, memories, stories, and folklore, which she then brings together to create a new narrative that she hopes her viewer will connect with as much as she does.

Hannah concludes; “I hope to continue to to grow and showcase more, so that I can make more! I am really enjoying printmaking at the moment and seeing where that can take my work next.” 

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