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Where Art & Community Meet
Gretchen Hancock
Artist Statement
I live on Vashon and so am inspired by what I see around me. I paint the ferries, scenes of the beach, and the madrona trees in my yard. I am interested in dramatic lighting--I look for the sunlit passages through the woods, fog and mist, late afternoon light turning the madrona trunks orange and red, moonlight reflected on the water. I paint in response to something I see, and I hope you will be captures by the sense of light in my pieces.
Artist Medium(s)
Painting
Artist Links
Website: http://www.gretchenhancock.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gretchenhancock/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gretchen.hancock.9
dailypaintworks: https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/gretchen-hancock-428
etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/gretchenhancock
blog: https://gretchenhancock.blogspot.com/
Artist Bio
Gretchen Hancock has worked in various media from ceramics to pastel and currently creates oil paintings. She creates landscapes of Vashon and the northwest from photographs she takes on scene, and on gray winter days she often paints still lifes of flowers and fruits that she sets up in her studio.
Gretchen graduated from the University of Nebraska where she studied art and majored in ceramics. She has taught watercolor and drawing at the college level. She has exhibited in local and national shows and has won awards at national juried shows.