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