On color, sunlight, and the joy of no rules.

I am a sunshine girl, chronically addicted to the light. I make work the way I move through a day — music loud, windows open, dancing barefoot between the canvas and the color. My studio is never still, and never cold.

I am a colorful maximalist. I believe the only rules in art are to be beautiful and to be fun — and that the most serious thing a painting can do is make you feel alive. Each piece is a record of that feeling: saturated, tender, a little wild, made by hand and made on purpose.

The works are unique. They are not editions, not duplicates, not products. They are recordings of a moment of joy that cannot be replayed.

Hanna Thistle, from the studio.