Artist Bio • Hannah D. Sessions • Leicester, VT
Hannah Sessions, a native Vermonter, first identified herself as an artist at age eleven when drawing brought her great pleasure and satisfaction. Since then she has graduated with a major in art and political science from Bates College (cum laude 1999) and started a family and a farm and cheese business (Blue Ledge Farm) with her husband, Greg Bernhardt. As her children and business grow and she gets back into painting more intensely she notices that being involved in agriculture has brought her artistic awareness to a whole new level; the barn with the bended roofline is a beautiful sight as well as a practical liability. The farm field is both an intense, life-affirming green as well as a sign of a good crop year! The animals that she paints are not only lovely specimens and interesting compositions, but her friends and her livelihood! Likewise, nurturing her artistic sensibilities has helped farming be more thoroughly satisfying.
Hannah’s hope is that her love for the Vermont landscape and the people and animals that live here comes through in her work. She feels it is the job of the artist is to awaken us all to the beauty, or the challenges, in our every day.
Her work has been in various juried shows and is currently shown in The Brandon Artist Guild in Brandon, VT, the Edgewater Gallery in MIddlebury, VT, in Blue Ledge Gallery in Leicester, VT and online at www.blueledgegallery.com.