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Hannah Harper grew up in the Southern Oklahoma countryside. She was encouraged to pursue creativity at a young age and collected art education from various sources as a child. At 17, she took a workshop with artists John and Terri Moyers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City who soon after took her under their wing and has mentored her ever since. They encouraged her to take workshops with charcoal master Ned Jacob in both Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson Hole, Wyoming and a semester at the Ryder Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2019 with a BFA in studio art and completed her MFA for painting at the University of Oklahoma in 2023.
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I have always held an adoration for the natural world and its wild inhabitants. Catching insects and frogs, exploring, and drawing animals were among my favorite childhood pastimes. In my current work, it is my pursuit to portray wildlife as I saw them in my youth, with empathy and whimsy. My hope as a painter is to stir within the viewer a sense of child-like wonder towards wildlife, who possess feelings not dissimilar to our own.
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