Ayn Hanna
Ayn is a printmaker and textile artist. Her subject matter includes imagery from the natural world as well as abstract compositions informed by her dreams. Her work is an exploration of media and processes as well as ideas, with the underlying elements of strong composition, rich texture, layers, patterns, and color as foundational supports.
Formally trained as a professional fine art printer, Ayn began exploring the textile medium in 2005. Her current work is focused on merging processes and techniques from her printmaking background with the fabrics and threads of the textile medium, the results of which she calls textile paintings. She also creates art cloth – unique hand-printed fabric made through deconstructed screen printing of procion MX fiber reactive dyes.
Ayn maintains an active exhibition schedule. Her work has been shown in numerous regional Colorado and national exhibits, including shows in Tillamook, OR, Reading, PA, Huntsville, TX, and LaConner, WA. Ayn has taught drawing and printmaking and currently teaches an art cloth workshop at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, CO. Her work has been featured in publications including American Quilter and Machine Quilting Unlimited Magazines.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Ayn moved to Colorado to attend college at Colorado State University where she earned a BFA in Graphic Design and an MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture. After graduate school, she moved to New York City and spent several years working as a professional Fine Art Printer in a Master Printmaking Studio, making etching prints with many accomplished contemporary artists. She returned to CO a few years later and currently lives in Fort Collins, CO where she is the owner of Taft Canyon Studio.
