ARTISTS STATEMENT
I was born 1955 and has been working as a professional visual artist since 1980.
I work with paintings, watercolors, graphics, sculpture and poetry.
My work is centered on color and form as expression, and as a universal language without words. It is my goal that the works speak directly to another person's feelings without linguistic barriers, and that they are experienced differently based on the individual's background.
I process my sensory impressions and experiences of the world into abstract, simplified expressions. The starting point in my practice is geometric and concrete, but the works become present through the titles that I usually give them.
Important to me is the interaction between the colors and shapes, which are evoked through their mutual position, location and direction, their contrast ratio and volume.
In painting, I work with colors, shapes and lines, which are combined into coloristic compositions within my personal lyrical palette, where the elements can be compared to harmonies in music.
I work mostly with abstract, coloristic works that challenge my imagination and ability for image and color composition. In addition, I make observations that translate into figurative images.
In my sculptural works, I work with the same motifs and colors as in my paintings – just in three dimensions.
The formats and sizes vary from very small to very large works.
In poetry, I have the opportunity to express my experiences in a concentrated, poetic linguistic form and accompany the poems with images that both support, enrich and expand the experience of them.
In my work with decorations, I choose different solutions depending on what is best suited to the individual symbiotic integration between the surface - and the people involved, surroundings and architecture - the form.
Hanne Sie
A DESCRIPTION OF HANNE SIE'S WORK
Hanne Sie's paintings are first and foremost "about" colors. I intentionally put "about" in quotation marks because it is not stories or objects from the physical world that interest her as an artist.
In 1912, Wassily Kandinsky wrote his book "On the Spiritual in Art". Here, the Russian artist pleads for a pure art freed from the requirement to represent forms from the external world. Instead, the spiritually oriented Kandinsky wants an art where colors and forms point to an inner spiritual and universal world, and where the elements of the picture can be compared to music. Where a painting becomes a symphony of colors.
This is what Hanne Sie wants with her art.
As with Kandinsky, you can find recognizable figures, houses, flowers, landscape elements and a herd of elephants!, but they are included in the composition in the same non-representational way as the pure abstract forms. You don't have to look at a Hanne Sie painting for long to discover the music in the images. The colors, turned up to full brightness, complicated and dynamic patterns on the surface. One painting is dominated by cold shades, another by warmth. Elliptical energy paths are interrupted by rectangular, square or wedge-shaped planes that make the gaze and the pace stop and shoot in a different direction, creating a new contrapuntal rhythm. The energy continues beyond the picture surface as contractions or explosions. Galaxies rotate on their own axis in the deep black infinity of the universe. Electrons and neutrinos race around in elementary particle orbits. The associations are many and in principle equally valid from viewer to viewer.
What is neither equally valid nor unimportant, however, is Hanne Sie's mastery of color and form. Even though she works intuitively and without previous sketches, she still has to be able to apply the brushstrokes with precision. And Hanne Sie can do that. Something that has required years of hard work and struggle with the difficult canvas. Not that you can see it in her pictures. Whether they are paintings or watercolors, the works feel elegant, dynamic and harmonious. Glowing orange, deep violet, meditative blue and light sky blue tones shoot in and out of each other, forming color symphonies of varying rhythm and mood.
I see Bach, Beethoven and Mozart in my mind's eye. Others will see jazz music, techno or Pink Floyd. It is entirely up to you and your co-creative imagination.
In any case, Hanne Sie's paintings convey an immediate feeling of joy. They set in motion some oscillations, difficult to put into words, but coming from life itself in all its fantastic shades.
Author and Art Critic Tom Jørgensen in the book "101 Artists 2014"
A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKS OF HANNE SIE
Hanne Sie expresses herself in an abstract lyrical way with inspiration from nature similar to the Danish artists Edvard Weie and Olaf Rude. There is something optimistic about the sunny paintings which have been inspired by travels in Mediterranean countries. There is a predilection for warm colours: red, orange, yellow, pink, while the sharp light of Greece and the strong contrasts between the blue sea, the blue sky and the whitewashed buildings are reflected in a series of paintings worked in blues-green colours. The forms are reduced to well-defined areas of colour. Occasionally the inspirational motif can still be discerned despite the abstraction: a birds beak and claws, the view from a window, the open fields etc. An individuel sense of colour is characteristic of Hanne Sie´s work, whether in acrylic paintings or in watercolours. As a graphic artist Hanne Sie works with various techniques, preferably lithography, where she can maintain the richness of colour.
Marianne Barbusse, Art Historian.