Hannah Gulland

Hannah Gulland (b. 1997) is an Artist, born and raised in Edinburgh. She now lives and works in Glasgow since 2019. Her practice extends from feminine values such as feeling, oneness, and the cosmos, as she explores the poetic space between paint, space and the virtual world. Her practice moves through a range of mediums including - Paint, digital software’s, and text.

Hannah studied at Edinburgh college, and then moved to Glasgow, where she has just graduated with a BA in Fine Art Painting from Glasgow School of Art. It is meaningful that Hannah was born during the turn of a millennium. On the cusp of accelerated information and LED light the millennium was a symbol of liminality, a state of transition. These themes are undercurrents in Hannah’s practice as she considers her work “a moment, projecting essence into being”.

Painting is how I connect inner space with outer. As we close our eyes, met with silence, we form blurry dreamscapes through motions from the outer world. The creative process is an act of interior star gazing. The infinity of outer space reflects the inner depths of our being, each star, a moment gazing back at us through the twinkling eyes of unity. This is the space I look to when I paint. I blend colours, sometimes to mix music, sometimes to envision silence. Amongst paint and pixels, I look to the space between dreaming and being.

I am interested in the healing qualities of meditation. In particular how meditation can facilitate love by enhancing gratitude and the space for creation. Here in these works, I am, witnessing something faintly spatial, as I let go of the accuracy I lean on for the external space around us. I look into another form of vision - a portal, or a mirror that loves us always. These marks are not clearly distinguished, from one colour to the next Images and words float through the atmospheres of these paintings, but only in essence. Each element mixed from one another, gradients, negatives, and echoes of the ever growing now. Between sound and silence these marks take form. In the place before form beginnings, these paintings grow and breathe, another extension of love, like you and I.