CV
Born in 1973, in Reading UK
Resides in Bradford on Avon, UK
Education/Training:
2026/27 Royal College of Art: MA in Painting (Upcoming)
2023/24 Turps Art School: Turps Correspondence Course
1997-2000 University of the West of England: BA hons in Art and Visual Culture
Solo Shows:
2024 Frictional Drag: Radio Hair Salon, Kings Cross & Shoreditch Salons, London
2023 Frictional Drag: Red Eight Gallery, London
2023 Season of the Witch - Artsy/Maggio Art Consultancy
2019 Rebel Visions - Green Rooms Hotel, London
Group Shows:
2025 ’The Body’ - Curated Collection, Hypha Curates Platform
2025 On Gaia’s Skin: Shoreditch Modern gallery, London
2024 Winter Show: Linden Hall Studio gallery, Kent
2023 Through the Looking Glass: Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2023 Summer Salon Exhibition: Candid Arts Trust, London
2022 SFSA: Painting Open Exhibition, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
2022 Ty Pawb Open - Finalists Exhibition, Ty Pawb Museum, Wales
2022 Oxmarket Open Exhibition - Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery, Chichester
2020 ‘Disrupting the Stillness’ - Visionary Projects/Lohme Gallery
Residencies:
2025 Ovada Arts Centre Summer Residency, Oxford, UK
Art Fairs/Art Events/Auctions:
2024 Artist Studio Sale - The Auction Collective
2023 4bySix - Commissioned Bus Panel Auction
2022 The Other Art Fair - Truman Brewery, London October
2022 Art on a Postcard - Winter Auction, Bomb Factory, London
Grants & Awards:
2024 Longlisted - Aesthetica Art Prize
2022 Grand Prize winner - See|Me’s Emerge competition
2021 Longlisted - Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award
2021 New Platform Art: Professional Development Programme
2020 Finalist - London International Creative Competition (LICC)
Media & Publications:
2025 Considering Art Podcast - (CLICK HERE)
2023 Aucart - In the Studio Interview (CLICK HERE)
2022 See|Me: The Living Artist - Featured Artist (CLICK HERE)
2022 Art Connect ‘Artist to Watch’ (CLICK HERE)
Hannah Thomas (British) is a painter, she currently works out of her studio in Wiltshire, UK. Working with acrylics, oil sticks and pastels she creates bold, often large scale works characterised by recurring motifs set amidst fractured, abstracted landscapes. Triggering a dialogue with ideas of mortality and Absurdism, they are soaked in references to the horror and wonder of the natural world. Her technique is constantly evolving and she embraces a vital, experimental practice always in the process of recalibrating itself.
She acquired a BA hons in Art and Visual Culture from UWE in Bristol, studying photography. Living and working for over a decade in London as a professional photographer predominantly in the music industry, she moved over to painting in 2019, desirous of more autonomy and creative freedom in her artistic output. She is now committed to her studio practice full-time.
As well as her first solo show in London in 2023, her work has been included in group shows with Shoreditch Modern Gallery, London (2025) and Linden Hall Studios, Kent (2024). She has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 and completed the Turps Correspondence Course (with Turps Art School, London) in June 2024.
She recently participated in the Ovada Summer Residency 2025 in Oxford, and has been offered a place with Royal College of Art on the MA in Painting for 2026/27.
She is currently working on a two-person show with another local artist, Genevieve Leavold, opening in Frome, Somerset at the end of February.
Her work is included in private and corporate collections in the UK and Internationally.
STATEMENT:
My paintings emerge through an instinctive process of addition and erasure, a continual act of editing until the emotional climate of the work reaches its full potency. This process-driven approach allows images to surface gradually, shaped as much by removal as by accumulation.
The natural world—its beauty, horror, fecundity, and decay—is a constant presence in the work. It mirrors my preoccupations with mortality and, more broadly, reflects humanity’s origins and enduring conflicts. My practice is in a state of continual recalibration, balancing a loose, playful handling of materials with an increasingly focused engagement with recurring personal motifs and a pervasive sense of disquiet.
I paint to create a place of freedom in which images and ideas can coexist and collide—strange, off-kilter portals and landscapes that envelop and overwhelm the viewer. Atmosphere and ambiguity are the driving forces of my practice; I do no preparatory works or sketches, the paintings are created from scratch on the canvas in an instinctive and responsive conversation with the paint and the physical act of its application.