Where Color Meets the Coastline

A woman with short gray hair and glasses smiling in an art gallery or studio. She is wearing a white t-shirt and a sleeveless denim vest. She is surrounded by various colorful paintings on the wall and is reaching towards a display of art prints or photographs on a table.

Painting the Light of Florida

Barbara Hann is a Florida oil painter whose work explores the shifting relationship between color, water an light. From the Keys to Florida’s Atlantic coast, familiar places become starting points for paintings shaped by movement, broken color and the freedom of the brush.

An impressionistic painting of boats docked in a harbor with a cloudy sky overhead.

Inside the Studio

A painting rarely travels in a straight line. Color shifts, edges disappear, marks are reconsidered, and sometimes one unexpected stroke changes everything. A glimpse inside the process, where observation gives way to instinct.