Hannah Turner-Duffin

Hannah Turner-Duffin is a British painter born in London and based in rural Brittany, France. She studied at Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art, 2007), The Prince’s Drawing School (now The Royal Drawing School, 2009), and completed a PGCE in Art and Design at the IOE, London (2014). She later attended the Turps Banana Studio Programme (2016–2018). In 2025, she was awarded a residency at Dumfries House through The Royal Drawing School. Her work is held in The Royal Collection and in private collections internationally, and she has exhibited widely.

Her practice expands painting through textile and printmaking processes, resulting in richly layered, tactile works that balance material experimentation with painterly depth.

Her work is centred on transformation and repetition, where paintings evolve through cyclical processes of making and reworking. Drawing on both physical and imagined landscapes, she uses plants and rocks as recurring motifs that carry associations of memory, folklore, and lived experience.

In her ongoing series Rocks and Flora, Turner-Duffin reworks pages from geology books into painted surfaces, merging natural reference with material intervention. These works explore painting as a space of accumulation and change, where surface becomes a site for holding both personal and inherited histories.