Jude Hanly

From Set Design to Canvas

Jude Hanly’s artistic journey is a tapestry woven with diverse experiences. From her early days as a set designer for prestigious theatre companies like the RSC and Welsh National Opera to founding her own Interior Design Company, Jude’s career path was rich and varied. However, it was a life-changing surgery in 2015 that prompted her to pursue her lifelong passion for painting.

Inspired by Nature’s Splendour

For Jude, nature is not just a muse; it’s a source of profound artistic inspiration. Her love for the great outdoors, from majestic mountains to the rhythmic waves of the sea, infuses her artwork with a sense of wonder and vitality. Jude’s paintings evoke the essence of these natural landscapes, capturing fleeting moments in time with breath taking detail.

A Performative Process

Jude’s artistic process is as dynamic as the natural elements she seeks to portray. Through a combination of pigments, oils, and found objects, she creates immersive works that invite viewers to immerse themselves in the ebb and flow of nature’s rhythms. Each brushstroke is imbued with a sense of movement and energy, reflecting the fluidity of the natural world. While the scale often large she often works smaller, the impact is no less profound, offering viewers a glimpse into Jude’s creative process and the boundless beauty of the natural world.

Current Artistic Practice

Jude is inspired and fascinated by nature, recalling places experienced or imagined as the artwork forms, creating from a place of no time, no space. Jude uses marks like an impressed memory, trying to recapture the essence of that moment. Jude constructs images with multiple layering, but at the same time leaving space for surprise, for something unexpected to happen. Her paintings are created through a performative process of applying pigments, oils, solvents and water pouring dripping, creating pools, then tilting and manoeuvring the canvas, creating a breeze causing the paint to move. “Water is such a powerful force in shaping the natural landscape and by using the fluidity of the paint in my process, resonates with ways in which the landscape is eroded and formed”.

Genre: Landscape / Figurative / Installations / Ceramics / Film

Mediums: Contemporary Multimedia Artist

Commissions: Yes Workshops: Yes Demonstrations: No Community Arts Projects: Yes