Marc Hanson
United States
Marc R. Hanson
Having grown up in a military family, Marc’s youth was spent on the move. He was born in Oxnard, California and spent some of his early school years there. But his geographical resume soon included Alaska, Florida, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Norway. After his father’s retirement from the Air Force, Marc’s family settled in the small northern California community of Loomis. Marc began college as a biology major, but soon applied to and was accepted into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, majoring in illustration. After Art Center and a brief stint as a staff illustrator in Sacramento, California, Marc moved to Minnesota where he lived for 33 years while raising a family and pursuing his art. He currently lives near Savannah, GA on Tybee Island with his partner and painter, Dottie T. Leatherwood and their two dogs.
“I have pursued a career as a painter for many years now. Along the way my methods,
materials and focus have evolved. A naturalist at heart, the landscape is the perfect
vehicle for expressing the joy I have for the world that surrounds me. My real interest
and challenge as a painter is how to best manipulate the core principles of painting into
effective visual statements. I’m most successful when I’m able to communicate that joy
to the viewers of my paintings. I hope to express my love for the landscape to the viewer of my paintings so that they might also see the significance of it, of that special quality that they may have otherwise overlooked, and realize its essential value to us all.”
Marc has shown his work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since the early 1980’s.
He is a Master Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.M.)
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