Description: Hanna CheriyanVarghese 7 Apr 1938 – 12 June 2009 Hanna Cheriyan Varghese was a Malaysian Christian artist. She started her career as an art and...
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Hanna Cheriyan Varghese was a Malaysian Christian artist. She started her career as an art and English teacher. She was also a wife, mother and grandmother. Hanna used to say that as a visual artist, she did not get enough hours to paint and batik-dye as other demands of daily life usurped her time.
Hanna worked with different medium like oil colours, metal-tooling and wood-block printing. Her passion was painting with Acrylic on canvas and batik-dyeing in fabric. Hanna described batik-dyeing as, “ an element of surprise and wonder in dyeing. The colour is deep when the fabric is wet. When it dries it takes on a lighter shade. Finally the result of colour on colour is amazing when a new hue emerges.”
From the early eighties, Hanna began expressing her faith, spiritual thoughts and experiences together with Biblical imageries into tangible form. She was inspired by the artwork created by the many Asian Christian artists in the IMAGE Magazine, and subsequently meeting many of them.