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No images? [Click here]( [Erin Hanson - Landscapes in Oil]( [ORIGINALS]( | [PRINTS]( | [B]([OOKS]( H O P into C O L O R Get 15% off all Erin Hanson prints! The special ends tonight at midnight (PST). 1 5 % O F F All Erin Hanson Prints Code: HOPPY15 Offer Ends: Sunday, April 17th, at Midnight (PST) All Erin Hanson prints are custom made at our state-of-the-art print production facility in McMinnville, Oregon. For questions or assistance, please contact: (503) 334-3670 or email info@erinhanson.com [SEARCH Prints]( [TEXTURED Prints]( [Request ASSISTANCE]( The Birth of OPEN IMPRESSIONISM 2006 - 2011 Boulders by Erin Hanson (2007) Erin Hanson began painting in oils when she was 7 years old. She experimented in many different styles and mediums over the years, but a new and distinct style was born when she moved to Las Vegas and began rock climbing at age 25, marking a turning point in her life and career as an artist. Her unique style of contemporary impressionism later became known as “Open Impressionism.” In contrast to Los Angeles where Hanson had grown up, the wide open and colorful desert landscape of Nevada was incredibly appealing to the artist, and she decided that she would paint landscapes exclusively. At age 25, she made a personal decision to create one painting every week, in order to develop her skills as an artist. The startling red, orange and yellow colors of Red Rock Canyon were vibrant and appealing, and the young artist painted almost 50 paintings of the Nevada desert during her first year living in Las Vegas. This early collection includes paintings of Boulder City, Valley of Fire State Park, and of course Red Rock Canyon where she rock climbed every week. Hanson attributes the chunky, abstract nature of Open Impressionism to her method of painting Red Rock Canyon for the first two years of her career. Dark cracks in the rocks of separated the distinct planes of color in the rocky cliffs, creating defined areas of light and dark and a medley of abstract shapes within the rocks. To emulate this effect in her paintings, Hanson likewise used dark lines to delineate planes of distinct color, and her brush strokes were naturally “square-shaped” to communicate the square angles of the rocks. This room of the exhibition includes Hanson’s earliest Open Impressionism paintings, created between 2006 and 2011. You can see the progression and change of Hanson’s style from a pastel color palette with small brush strokes to her “blue/purple” phase where she began experimenting with larger brush strokes placed more freely across the canvas. She started rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park in 2009, and you can see here some of her first landscape paintings of the California desert. Red Rock Nevada by Erin Hanson (2006) Curve of Rock by Erin Hanson (2007) Abstract Rock by Erin Hanson (2009) Arizona Summer by Erin Hanson (2011) [Erin Hanson: a RETROSPECTIVE]( [Facebook]([Instagram]([Pinterest]([Website]([YouTube]( The Erin Hanson Gallery in Oregon 1805 NE Colvin Ct McMinnville, OR 97128 (503) 334-3670 The Erin Hanson Gallery in Carmel San Carlos between 5th and 6th Carmel, CA 93921 (831) 574-1782 Please contact us for more information: info@erinhanson.com You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Erin Hanson's artist newsletter. [Unsubscribe](