Mandy Hansen - Flutter and Flow

A transformative process 

My studio practice includes watercolor paper that moves like fabric when submerged in water and translucent rice paper mounted to wood.  I work with paper as it soaks up life, reminds me of being a child drawing on construction paper, and the stories of my great grandma sewing textiles that flowed from her lap under a dangling light bulb. I use ink to capture the flow of water and then organize these blotches with a language of mark making. These marks or “doodles” are a translation and homage to movement and nature. A way to make sense of this sometimes messy, beautiful life.

 
Mandy Hansen is a mixed media artist whose studio practice investigates personal and ancestral memory, nature, and rootedness.  She has exhibited in juried and invitational shows at multiple locations in Colorado Springs as well as the Arvada Center for the Arts and Redline Contemporary Art, and completed artist-in-residencies at Ghost Ranch (NM) and Talemar Park (IN). Mandy holds a doctorate degree in education, has worked with communities internationally, and has taught several art workshops for children in Guatemala. She currently works out of a home studio at the base of the Rocky Mountains.