The quiet disruption of the stitch.
This is the writing that accompanies this body of work. The Quiet Disruption of the Stitch … I thought this was about something different...
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Thoughts and Thinking
I am an artist researcher whose work is underpinned by an emotional response to life experiences and paths explored.
Here I share with you things I have read and seen, along with short pieces of writing.
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Hannah Turlington
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Protecting the self
As I grow into the artist I aim to be, I excavate the life I have had so far to learn and reflect. Writing is integral to my creative...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Letters to my teenage son
As an artist working in an auto ethnographic way, I use the stories of my life and the emotion I experience within my work. In each piece...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jun 19, 2023
- 3 min
The Gift of Lichen...
The gift of lichen... ‘ Our deadliest susceptibility is conformity and our deadliest virtue is putting up with things as they are.’...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jun 12, 2023
- 5 min
No Fxxking Apologies!
No more apologies for the actions of others. No more apologies for things I haven’t done. No more apologies for my writing. No more...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jun 8, 2023
- 1 min
Wakening by Hannah Turlington
The sun has a certain quality in the early morning – it caresses everything it touches with a softness that envelops it. The stillness of...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 16, 2023
- 1 min
The Light of the Fractured - May 2023
by Hannah Turlington As I search for me, I have to hold my space...the space I hold prevents the interruptions- the advice – the warnings...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
My Barren Womb Does Not define Me...
The phrase came to me during one of my studio days. I had wandered off down a rabbit hole of thinking of phrases and words that defined...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
Looking for those signs of hope...
Hope means different things to different people and during turbulent times in our lives we cling onto those signs and that word Hope. A...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jan 2, 2021
- 2 min
Plan for what you can control...
Sitting here by the log burner and a Columbo film on the television my mind is wandering towards the uncertainty of the new year. At this...
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Hannah Turlington
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
Learn to Love Lino Printing
‘Learn to love lino printing’: Creative packs with online tuition by Hannah Turlington ‘Everyone loves an apron...’ is what I say when...
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Hannah Turlington
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Hold on...
The photographs that we take and the things that we collect tell the stories of our lives. Sometimes we have to hold onto the things that...
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Hannah Turlington
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Workshops for November & December 2020
As we approach the end of 2020 a lot of us are searching to regain some definition to finish the year. The days are shorter and we have...
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Hannah Turlington
- Oct 24, 2020
- 2 min
2021 is on its way...
‘Connections’ a hand printed linocut calendar for 2021 by Hannah Turlington There are 16 million mass produced calendar’s sold every...
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Hannah Turlington
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
The first rule of Print Club...
We all those ideas that sit with us for a while until we are ready to do something with them. Then we think that the ideas are ready and...
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Hannah Turlington
- Jun 13, 2020
- 2 min
How I create my designs...
Finding inspiration for drawing and carving and printing is easy however it is deciding what not to do that is hard. I have for a number...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
What is your story?
"I am a story teller and I use my work to tell those stories. Sometimes they belong to me. Sometimes they belong to others but usually...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Loosening Up!!
The need to control has always unpinned everything that I have done in life and the amount of mistakes and fun I have had. I have always...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
The Art of Procrastination
What is it about being busy that makes us feel that we are achieving and that we have a definite purpose? I am possibly the queen of...
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Hannah Turlington
- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
Working towards adopting the 'Multi-Hyphen' life.
We are always evolving because we have to respond / adapt, sometimes immediately, to challenges that life throw at us. Usually these...
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