Anne Hanna is a nationally-recognized watercolorist living near Dagsboro, Delaware. She has exhibited widely in the Washington, DC, Baltimore and throughout Delaware for the last 30 years. Anne moved from Laurel, Maryland, a Washington suburb, to Delaware in 1998.
Since 1999, she has had one person shows at the Rehoboth Art League, Delaware Tech, the Peninsula Gallery in Bethany Beach, and the Zwaanendael Gallery of Art. Her prints are represented at the Coastal Art and Framing Gallery. In March of 2004, she was the featured artist of her print company, Qoro LLC, at the five-day International Art Expo at New York City's Javits Center.
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| Anne was the featured artist of the Rehoboth Art League's May 2005 exhibition, showing more than 25 of her recent works in the League's Corkran Gallery. |
She received her formal training at the Central School of Art and Design in London and at Indiana University. Over the years she has studied with nationally recognized artists, including Robert Wood, Janet Walsh, Frank Webb, William "Skip" Lawrence, Charles Reed and Edgar Whitney.
She always has wanted to share her love of art. Anne served as a volunteer teacher in Prince George's County, Maryland schools for 12 years when she was art director of the Savage Mill Gallery in Savage, MD.
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| Anne's home studio in Point Farm looks out on Vines Creek. |
| Since moving to the Delaware seashore, she has been active in community affairs, including hosting the Art in the Afternoon lecture series at the Bethany Beach library. Recently, she has been featured by the Rehoboth Art League, the Beebe Hospital Art Auction, and the Bethany Watercolor Society.
Anne painted this dolphin which was sold at auction to benefit a local charity.
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Who's Who of American Women lists Anne as former official portrait artist for the Boy Scouts of America's National Capital Area Council, and a contributor of portraits for the permanent collection of American Founders of Scouting. She has been an award-winning Boy and Girl Scout leader, earning the Silver Beaver Award, and co-chaired the Patuxent District Sea Scouts. She received a Delaware State Arts Division Travel Grant and has been accepted in the National League of American Pen Women as a Painter/Member.
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| Anne greets a visitor at the annual Southeastern Delaware Artists Studio Tour. |
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| More than 500 art enthusiasts visited Anne's studio during the two-day tour. |
There is an aspect to Anne's work that you are unlikely to find in another artist. Because of a stigmatism, she paints with her canvas upside down. "I find that I can focus on shape, color, change, nuance, and pattern better. The inverted approach forces me to see what the eye sees, instead of being influenced by preconceived notions," she says.
For more information on Anne's background see her resume..
