Hanna never imagined when she moved to a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada in February 2011 that she would find the inspiration to become an artist, specifically a textile artist.

She began finding inspiration in the people around her, in the world of nature, Saskatchewan and from Japan where she grew up.

In 2017, Hanna wanted to participate in Quiltcon. She was drawn to minimal designs that expressed what she knew as the Japanese “Wabi-Sabi” concept. Wabi-Sabi means finding beauty in imperfection – and beauty in simplicity. Richness does not mean something shiny, gold or silver. In imagination we find a history behind an object, the people who were part of it, the depths within that open to us – this is all part of Wabi-Sabi. She is inspired by a piece of old tree bark, a lake, stones, the long white winter …

Hanna tried many crafts and art forms. In textile art, she finds she is free to express herself. As a young woman, she attended kimono classes – learning how to wear them, how to care for them. She watched her mother carefully holding, hanging, folding the kimonos. There was a beauty in the movement of her hands as she did this. Hanna feels this when she uses her sewing machine/hand stitching and when she feels the fabric that has a life of its own.