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Artist Adventure Series, No. 2
Adventures that Inspire Erin Hanson's Paintings
Saturday, April 30, 2011
It was a dark morning in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, home and inspiration to Georgia O'Keefe. I awoke at daybreak, ready to search out the perfect scene to paint. The hike was short, only a mile or so, but it climbed straight up to the top of a butte. From the towering peak, I peered dizzyingly down to the ground.
So enchanted I was, I hardly noticed that the ever changing clouds and changed to a decidedly darker hue. I realized suddenly that the mountainside a few hundred feet behind me had disappeared completely behind a cloud: a dark, electric blue cloud that looked like something from Gotham City. It had grown suddenly silent.. then the deep rumbling started. I was exposed without shelter, a mile from the ground, with no rain jacket. So, I ran.
Like a leaping horse, I ran down the rocky trail, seeing for the first time all the blackened and barren pine trees that had been electrically stripped of their foliage. I ran, the cloud following me, the wind starting to whip, lightning cracking and snapping just behind me.
I reached my van as the first thick drops started splattering heavily around me. Ten minutes later I saw several sodden and unhappy hikers lurch to safety. But I sure got some great photos!
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About Erin
ERIN HANSON is the creator of Open Impressionism, a new painting style taught in art schools worldwide. Hanson is one of the most prolific artists in history, with over 3,000 oil paintings sold to eager collectors. With millions of followers, Hanson has become an iconic, driving force in the rebirth of impressionism, inspiring thousands of other artists to pick up the brush and join her in the Open Impressionism movement.
Hanson began painting in oils at 8 years old. As a teenager, she apprenticed at a mural studio where she worked on 40-foot-long paintings while selling art commissions on the side. After being told it was too hard to make a living as an artist, she got her degree in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley. Afterward, Erin became a rock climber at Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Inspired by the colorful scenery she climbed, she returned to her love of painting and began creating one new painting every week.
Twenty years later, Hanson now resides in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, surrounded by beautiful wine country. She gathers inspiration for her paintings from the natural landscape around her, photo safaris abroad, and backpacking through National Parks. She seeks the beautiful colors of the golden hour and captures these colors on her canvases. Her painting studio and art gallery is 18,000 square feet (the length of a football field), and is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday.