Hannah

Odum

Hannah Odum lives and works in Bland County, a small town in Southwest Virginia. Surrounded by mountains and the changing seasons, she draws inspiration from the landscape and the weather, often focusing on atmosphere and ambiguity in her paintings. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Radford University in 2023 and has shown her work throughout Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Her paintings are part of both private and public collections. Hannah is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Painting at Radford University, continuing to develop her practice in the same region that first shaped her work. There, she holds a leadership position as Co-President in the Graduate Art Student Association at the university as well as working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. She is projected to graduate in the Spring of 2027.

I create ambiguous landscapes shaped by weather, light, and atmosphere. Working in both oil and acrylic paint, I use elements such as wind, fog, clouds, and cold to build a sense of energy, depth, and movement within each scene. These atmospheric conditions allow me to simultaneously obscure and reveal parts of the landscape, creating spaces that feel both familiar and elusive. My work explores the relationship between memory and place. Growing up in the Appalachian Mountains, I have been continually surrounded by their presence and captivated by the mystery, history, and personal memories they seem to hold. Rather than depicting specific locations, I paint landscapes that evoke the experience of remembering—a place that is recognizable yet indistinct, lingering just beyond clarity. Through softened forms, shifting light, and atmospheric veils, I aim to create images that function like memories themselves: fragmented, faded at the edges, and open to interpretation. By balancing observation with ambiguity, I invite viewers to inhabit a space between the seen and the remembered, where landscape becomes both a physical environment and a repository of memory.

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil / Alkyd, Pottery/Raku, Printmaking, Watercolor/Gouache