SWEPT AWAY

Hannah Adamaszek is a freelance artist. She was born in 1981 in the UK and graduated from Bournemouth with an art degree. She has been living there most of her life, but was lucky enough to go and work in Austria, Switzerland and Australia for a few ski seasons. Everyday life and people inspire her, she normally thinks about what she might paint when she's out running. Favourite mediums and tools include Decorating brushes, ink, acrylics and lots of water, spray paint and cardboard for stencils working on canvas, or anything huge she can get my hands on. Often leaving areas of finished work crude, allowing the layers of progress to be seen. She is part of Scrawl Collective, Urban Curations, and a featured artist on iloveartbastard.com, Hypocritedesign, Origin of Cool and Novel Magazine. She is also working with The Gallery Court and Upper Space Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried film. Oil paints have been used in Europe since the 12th century for simple decoration, but were not widely adopted as an artistic medium until the early 15th century. Common modern applications of oil paint are in finishing and protection of wood in buildings and exposed metal structures such as ships and bridges. Its hard-wearing properties and luminous colors make it desirable for both interior and exterior use on wood and metal. Due to its slow-drying properties, it has recently been used in paint-on-glass animation. Thickness of coat has considerable bearing on time required for drying: thin coats of oil paint dry relatively quickly.