Hannah Walsh

Hannah Walsh is an Aotearoa New Zealand–born artist working from her studio in Zennor, Cornwall. Her practice explores the natural world at a micro scale, shaped by an intuitive relationship with landscape and light.

Walsh works across oil painting, watercolour and mixed media. Her process centres on automatic mark making, developing a visual language through close observation, foraging and drawing. Smudges, scratches and dispersed marks create subtle atmospheres and spatial impressions, echoing the rural and coastal environments of her upbringing.

With a background in architecture (BAS, M.Arch.Prof., VUW, 2021), Walsh uses shifts in scale and perspective to move the work toward abstraction. She conceives her paintings as intimate micro worlds — spaces that feel both familiar and otherworldly, attuned to the relationship between human and natural realms.

In 2025, she completed a residency at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. Her work is held in private collections in New Zealand and the UK.

Studio: Cornwall, UK