Marc R. Hanson Bio

Having grown up in a military family, Marc’s youth was spent on the move. He was born in Oxnard, California and spent some of his early school years there. But his geographical resume soon included Alaska, Florida, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota  and Norway. After his father’s retirement from the Air Force, Marc’s family settled in the small northern California community of Loomis where he finished high school.
Marc began college as a biology major but soon applied and was accepted into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California majoring in illustration. After Art Center and a brief stint as a sta! illustrator in Sacramento, California, Marc moved to Minnesota where he has been living since.

“I have pursued a career as a painter for many years now. Along the way my methods, materials and focus have evolved. A naturalist at heart, the landscape is the perfect vehicle for expressing the joy I have for the world that surrounds me. My real interest and challenge as a painter is how to best manipulate the core principles of painting into e!ective visual statements. I’m most successful when I’m able to communicate
that joy to the viewers of my paintings.”

Marc teaches landscape painting workshops in many locations nationally. “ I love working with other painters in their pursuit to better their craft. My goal is not to have them assimilate my style and technique, but to teach them how to more closely examine the subject and apply the principles that representational painters must follow to become e!ective visual communicators.”

Marc has shown his work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since the early 1980’s. He has studied with some of out great painters, like Richard Schmid, Dan McCaw and Zhang Wen Xin, to further his own knowledge and abilities. He is a Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.), and a founding member of Plein Air Painters West (P.A.P.W.). Marc has garnered a number of national awards including placing four times in The Pastel Journal’s ‘Pastel 100’ competition, winning an Award of Excellence at the O.P.A. National Exhibit in 2000, 2007 and in 2009. Recently his work was selected as a Finalist in the International Artist’s Magazine’s Art Prize Challenge, 3rd Place Landscape in Pastel 100 (2008), the Pastel Award at the Society of Master Impressionist Show at the Sunset Art Gallery in Amarillo, Texas, and
The Award for Excellence at the Oil Painters of America’s National Exhibit at Sage Creek Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

Recent Publications
~American Art Collector 2007, 2008 ~The Artist’s Magazine 2005 ~
~Plein Air Magazine 2005
~The Pastel Journal 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008~

Marc R. Hanson ~ 219 Basil St ~ Taylors Falls, MN 55084
~ 651-465-0328/c-651-442-3811 ~
www.marchansonart.com ~ paintbox1@frontiernet.net