NAL Artist's Galleries - Anne Hanley
Anne Hanley
Media: Batik, Watercolor
website: www.afhanley.com
email: anarteest417@aol.com
Anne Hanley is a professional Batik artist and painter from Wheaton, Illinois. Working from her home studio, Anne has mastered the art of Batik in her own way. Her colorful blend of watercolors and hot wax on a ricepaper surface is a unique alteration of the centuries old art form. Anne has been displaying and selling her work for several years in juried art fairs and exhibitions throughout Chicago and the Chicagoland area.
Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Illinois State University, Majoring in Art and Design. She began her career as an Art Director in multi-image and video production for Educational Training and National Sales Conventions. Her job was to design shows for new product promotions, directing a staff of artists and communicating new ideas to perspective clients. After a few years, Anne decided to stay home and raise her three daughters and return to her love of painting. She began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Textile Art Center and the Evanston Art Center. Anne met great teachers and studied privately with a select few and continued to explore her own ideas of combining textiles and paint. The ancient Indonesian art of Batik became her main focus and she took several classes in fiber arts exploring the method of resist painting on fabric and paper.
Anne was raised in a family of professional musicians where education in the classics and the discipline of practicing was the basis for improving her skills.
“Art is the discipline of practicing those fundamentals and the desire to explore and invent something new which becomes the creation of art. All art is forever moving forward as you progress so does your work. The fundamentals of color, line, form and composition and their relationships are the key ingredients in producing art.”
Her passion for community has led her to several public art projects. Her first project, in 2004, for Children’s Assistance Foundation (ECAF) in Elmhurst, Illinois, was followed by the completion of three different projects in 2006 for United Way of Naperville, Illinois, and most recently a project for HCS Family Services of Oakbrook Illinois is to be displayed, May – September of 2011.
Anne was commissioned by Edward Hospital for eight works of art for their newly constructed Plainfield Cancer Center in Plainfield, Illinois. Four other original pieces were purchased by Edward Hospital’s Cancer Center, in Naperville, Illinois.
Recently Anne became the recipient of the NICHE Award, Mixed Media catagory, Buyers Market of American Craft Show, BMAC, Rosen Group. Philadelphia PA
website: www.afhanley.com
email: anarteest417@aol.com
Anne Hanley is a professional Batik artist and painter from Wheaton, Illinois. Working from her home studio, Anne has mastered the art of Batik in her own way. Her colorful blend of watercolors and hot wax on a ricepaper surface is a unique alteration of the centuries old art form. Anne has been displaying and selling her work for several years in juried art fairs and exhibitions throughout Chicago and the Chicagoland area.
Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Illinois State University, Majoring in Art and Design. She began her career as an Art Director in multi-image and video production for Educational Training and National Sales Conventions. Her job was to design shows for new product promotions, directing a staff of artists and communicating new ideas to perspective clients. After a few years, Anne decided to stay home and raise her three daughters and return to her love of painting. She began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Textile Art Center and the Evanston Art Center. Anne met great teachers and studied privately with a select few and continued to explore her own ideas of combining textiles and paint. The ancient Indonesian art of Batik became her main focus and she took several classes in fiber arts exploring the method of resist painting on fabric and paper.
Anne was raised in a family of professional musicians where education in the classics and the discipline of practicing was the basis for improving her skills.
“Art is the discipline of practicing those fundamentals and the desire to explore and invent something new which becomes the creation of art. All art is forever moving forward as you progress so does your work. The fundamentals of color, line, form and composition and their relationships are the key ingredients in producing art.”
Her passion for community has led her to several public art projects. Her first project, in 2004, for Children’s Assistance Foundation (ECAF) in Elmhurst, Illinois, was followed by the completion of three different projects in 2006 for United Way of Naperville, Illinois, and most recently a project for HCS Family Services of Oakbrook Illinois is to be displayed, May – September of 2011.
Anne was commissioned by Edward Hospital for eight works of art for their newly constructed Plainfield Cancer Center in Plainfield, Illinois. Four other original pieces were purchased by Edward Hospital’s Cancer Center, in Naperville, Illinois.
Recently Anne became the recipient of the NICHE Award, Mixed Media catagory, Buyers Market of American Craft Show, BMAC, Rosen Group. Philadelphia PA
