Hannah Turner-Duffin

Hannah Turner Duffin a British painter born in London, now based in rural Brittany, France. Her practice whilst rooted in painting, incorporates craft, textile and print-making techniques, works evoke not only their own crafting, but also a wide range of landscape associations, both physical and metaphysical. The anthropomorphic power of plants and rocks to convey everyday life experiences are recurring themes.

Canvas, silk, wood, ceramics and paper are worked with pigments, dyeing processes and oils. Paintings are sometimes torn and re-sculpted into rag rugged pieces. In the series ‘Rocks and Flora’ Turner-Duffin has appropriated and re-worked the pages of a seventies geology book belonging to her father, who himself is a geologist. The stones and minerals of the pages serve as symbols and conduits of emotion and memory, uninhibitedly holding space.

Turner-Duffin studied at Turps Banana Studio Programme 2016-2018; The Prince’s Drawing School (now The Royal Drawing School) 2009; BA Fine Art Falmouth School of Art 2007; as well as a PGCE in Art and Design from the IOE, London 2014. She has recently been awarded a residency at Dumfries House by the Royal Drawing School 2025 , at Fiskars AIR, Finland 2023, as well as others in Berlin, Denmark and India. Her work is held in The Royal Collection and private collections internationally and has exhibited widely.