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Wednesday, April 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
HANSON: Artist has
had interesting travel
opportunities
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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
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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,”
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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.
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