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22 Wednesday, April 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon HANSON: Artist has had interesting travel opportunities Continued from page 3 admissions counselor. She answered a small ad seeking someone who “likes to hang out and talk to artists and occasionally fly on a plane.” Her job was to travel to different U. S. cities to attend portfolio days, where aspir- ing young artists would bring their work in hopes of being admitted to one of the well- known art schools, like Pratt or SFAI. She presented slide shows about SFAI to high school and community col- lege students, whom she also interviewed. Through the years, like many artists, Hanson had a number of jobs to produce paychecks so she could con- tinue to paint. She worked as a book illustrator and graphic designer. “I am profoundly grate- ful to whatever forces in the universe have allowed such freedom,” Hanson wrote in her biographical sketch at the exhibit. Hanson’s one adult son, Aaron Jellum, lives in the Bay Area and is an accomplished heavy metal guitarist whose group, Laaz Rocket, opened for Metallica. He now owns a silk-screening business and is a soccer dad, giving Hanson two grandchildren. Hanson had a number of opportunities to travel to England and Europe, includ- ing living in the United Kingdom several times in Year-round FIREWOOD SALES — Kindling — — — SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS 541-410-4509 SistersForestProducts.com 2007 LEXUS RX350 AWD. Heated leather, moonroof Lexus dealership maintained. 133k. $14,900. DA3919 Mama needs a new ride! Sell Your Car With Us! Best Price! No Hassles! CARFAX Certifi ed! Low Miles • Newer than 2005 Sisters Car Connection 541-815-7397 102 W. Barclay Dr., Sisters — Locally Owned — the 1980s and 1990s. During those travels, Hanson enjoyed “spending time in museums and studying the environment where so many great painters lived and worked.” In the early 2000s, Hanson devoted her talents to her photography, opening a small photo studio in the Bay Area where she photographed chil- dren and families. Her images have been published in pho- tography books and journals as well as in LFI, a publica- tion of Leica Camera. Hanson’s home in Sisters is an artist’s dream. One room is her watercolor and work studio, her living room is given over to her oil paint- ing studio, and her walls are covered with colorful exam- ples of both her painting and photography. Her traveling isn’t finished yet, although Hanson admits she doesn’t enjoy it like she used to before all the regu- lations and TSA searches. Last May, Hanson traveled to Antigua for a week and then to Guatemala for two weeks. One of those weeks was spent as part of a Discover Corps group, working at a school in the mountains of Guatemala and making local excursions. Of course, Hanson’s camera and sketchbook were with her at all times. “I go as an artist. I always paint or draw or photograph,” Hanson said. Upon her return home, she has people interested in buy- ing her images from her trips. Two years ago, Hanson signed up for a tour of Cuba for photographers, arranged by Leica. She turned out to be the only tour member and so enjoyed a weeklong private tour with Volker Figueredo Veliz, a German who moved to Cuba where he has achieved fame as one of Leica’s top photogra- phers. Hanson’s photographs and paintings from her most recent trips are colorful street scenes and penetrating por- traits of the locals. In 2001, Hanson cre- ated a small cookbook, titled “Simple, Quick and Tasty,” PHOTO PROVIDED Linda Hanson in her sttdio. which is full of artwork she identifies as her “basic style” — small, simple, and appeal- ing. Now with advanced tech- nology, she is considering self-publishing the cookbook — if she just had the time. In 2014, after moving to Sisters, Hanson created another little book, titled “Learning to Draw Water,” full of small watercolor drawings of rivers and forests around Sisters. The book is available for sale on request. Hanson has paintings in private and corporate collec- tions in the San Francisco Bay Area; Washington, D.C.; and London. She had a show of her work last June in California and also exhib- ited in the High Desert Art Association show last year and plans to do so again this summer. More of Hanson’s work can be viewed on her web- site at www.lindahanson paintings.com. hair | massage | nails facials | makeup PHOTO PROVIDED One of the paintings on display at Sisters Library. Dr. Thomas R. Rheuben General, Cosmetic, Implant and Family Dentistry ~ Over 22 years Serving Sisters ~ We are preferred providers for Delta Dental PPO and Premier, MODA, Advantage, Pacifi c Source, Cigna and the V.A. 541-549-0109 | 304 W. Adams Ave. 541-549-1784 161-C N. Elm St. | Sisters