PAINT CARVER

Hannah Jensen’s art is unlike traditional painting because she works in reverse. She applies between 40 and 80 layers of Resene Lumbersider acrylic house paint to a ply board before carving into by hand with a simple Speedball linoleum cutter to reveal various colours and create detailed images filled with depth, texture and shadow.

A graduate of the Auckland University of Technology, where she studied intaglio, screenprinting, lithography, etching, and research into Japanese woodblocks, her current technique stems from