Inspired by desert landscape and a love for rock climbing, Erin Hanson paints bold and modern oil paintings. Through application of thick paint and bold, free strokes, Erin creates a moisaic of color that is alive wtih color. A new style that is entirely the artist’s, these paintings stand out in crowd!

Erin Hanson began painting as a young girl, around eight years old. Going to a private school allowed her to have the same art teacher for nine years. Her teacher, Cesar Jiminez, taught her oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and anything else she was interested in. Her father always bought her sketchbooks and encouraged her to sketch five drawings every day.

A high school scholarship took Erin to Otis College of Art and Design for a live figure drawing class. The wide, fast strokes of the charcoal would inspire her in landscape painting years later.  During high school Erin began working for Paytin Place, a collaboration of artists who painted huge murals for distribution around the world. Using acrylics, she helped paint murals of stampeding buffalo, dogs playing cards, and abstract circus themes, to name a few! Her favorite part of the day was swinging her legs two stories up on scaffolding, painting bunches of trees, her fellow artists scattered about in the large warehouse, the music blasting over the radio.

Erin Hanson graduated in 2003 with a biology degree from The University of California, Berkeley.

After graduating, Erin Hanson moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. While waiting for the electricity to turn on in her new apartment, she spent the first night camping near Red Rock Canyon, at the outskirts of Las Vegas. Having already decided to return to painting on a more serious note, Erin was awaiting only the proper inspiration, which the Nevada landscape provided. The stark desert with its dramatic shading and brilliant color was the most beautiful landscape she had ever seen. And that first morning in Las Vegas, waking up in Red Rock Canyon, Erin was hit with the vision that would inspire years of art and climbing.

Erin Hanson
Red Rock Fine Art
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Erin Hanson Gallery