Artist Marc Hanson

FASO Artist Website: http://marchansonart.com Year Born: 1955 Price Range: $75.00 - $2,400.00 (This price range was estimated with limited info and may be inaccurate) More info on Marc Hanson's Canvoo profile Follow this artist

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Biography

Artist’s Statement
 
Marc R. Hanson
 
A viewer of my paintings wrote to me recently and had this to say, “Your 
landscapes are so evocative, for me so emotional. You have a gift for portraying more 
than realism in your landscapes-not something fantastical, but something 
simultaneously approachable and not. Not everyone will do what you do, but so many of 
us are deluded or ambitious enough to aspire to.”  This very generous and kind 
statement describes exactly how I would hope that my art is received by those who view 
it.  I try to live up to this ideal with each painting.  
 
  One of the reasons that I’m a visual artist is that it has always been more 
effective for me to share my excitement about the natural world through visual means, 
painting or drawing, than it has been through writing or speaking about it.  My love of 
the land, the Midwest in particular, and my desire to communicate that deep seeded 
love is what drives my work.  Painting is the vehicle for my expression of that love.  My 
purpose is not to replicate the specific or dwell on the spectacular, as much as it is to 
observe the specific and to discover the beauty in the seemingly unspectacular.  My 
goal is to paint a sense of place and what that means to me as an artist.  
 
  Typically my work is painted on location during all seasons of the year.  The 
paintings created on location are painted on a smaller scale in oils.  The smaller scale of 
these paintings allows me to capture those fleeting moods, and quickly changing light or 
weather effects.  I’ve painted this way, en plein air, for many years now, and have 
completed many, many hundreds of these studies.  Most of these small paintings are 
painted either on linen or primed board and are completed in one to one and half hours. 
 
The studies [...]

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