David Hanner
Listening in Color
Between silence and sound, color and form, I look for the place where attention becomes still enough to listen — and from that stillness, to create.
Artist Bio
David Hanner is a visual artist and composer whose creative journey bridges the worlds of sound and image.
After years devoted to classical performance and composition, he turned to visual art as a way to restore a sense of wonder and connection. Working with acrylics, watercolor, ink, charcoal, and pastel on canvas, board, and paper, Hanner explores the emotional terrain between structure and improvisation.
His work grows from a need to transform silence, discipline, and memory into color and gesture, creating spaces that feel both intimate and resonant.
Artist Statement
Painting began for me as an act of hope — a quiet attempt to find my way back to the pulse of creativity after a long silence.
What started as resistance to indifference has become a daily rhythm of balance and renewal. I work with the tactile presence of materials, layering and erasing, listening for harmony between chance and intention.
My background in music shapes how I sense rhythm and resonance on the surface, but painting allows me to touch what sound only suggests. Each piece is both a question and a response — a dance of perception that keeps me close to the mystery of making (listening example: "Anvoar", at https://youtu.be/RVFsB-pQ0Fc).
© David Hanner, 2025
My Portfolio
Egaville
Acrylics on Wood Panel, 24"x24" I examine the tension between aggregation and disintegration, engaging energy, collapse, and...
Looking Out
Acrylics on wood panel, 20"x22" My work explores how surface and time reveal form. I am interested in the point where color dissolves into...
Red, Ascending
I am interested in the energy that color and line can produce together. The corpus presents intense reds and warm chromas as a field of...
Memories Child
"Paper texture and pigment behavior are central tools: transparent washes, glazing, and controlled lifting allow me to build depth while...
Veitsch Veil
My practice portrays the space between clarity and obscurity. I am drawn to the way color, abrasion, and time can alter perception—how a...
ArtPrints
ArtPrints
Wearable Art by: David Hanner Art Studio -Le Galeriste - Wearable Art - Made in Montreal
Artist's Fashion Line, Original Art on Apparel, High End Clothing, and Home Decor
No Roses
Layered textures and subtle relief reveal a tension between defined shapes and flowing color, where shadowed figures emerge and dissolve...
Anvoar - music
A composition for large ensemble. Featuring th Klangforum Wien ensemble and Matthias Pintscher, conductor Vienna, 2001
Long Before the Blues
Tharmoon, in the Making
Acrylics on wood panel, 24"x24" My work explores the interplay between shadow and color, the way luminous pigments assert themselves...
Oriminis
Nomandsland
I painted Nomandsland to explore how bands of color can shift the feel of a sky — deep blues meet soft greens, with threads of pink and...
Spectacle
Tsur Song
Tsur Song presents an abstract watercolor in sunlit yellows and heated oranges, punctuated by sparing touches of red and green. Fluid...
Paxos
Acrylics on Paper 12"x12" My practice explores the boundary between watery and terrestrial systems: how light, flow and sediment translate...
Memories Mother
Memories Mother — an abstract study in warm earth tones and geometric planes. Technically, the painting is done through repeated layering:...
No Roses
I am compelled by the tension between form and flux. My practice presents washes of saturated color alongside carved, scraped, or fissured...