Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

Hannah Flowers

Title:

“In the Garden on the Isle of Sobek”

Medium & Dimensions:

Oil on linen panel, 50 x 40 cm

About the Artist

Hannah Flowers was born in 1989 on Tasmania’s rugged shores and now makes her home in the misty mountains of Scotland, where the surrounding Nature and rich history fuel her creative spirit. Her subjects, despite often appearing compromised, exude a quiet power beneath their soft and feminine exterior. Every detail in her work is crafted with care, using the finest quality pigments and materials while employing time-honoured techniques. Hannah prefers a hands-on, traditional approach, deliberately avoiding digital mediums and screens in favour of a more romantic, tactile process. Her passion for authentic craftsmanship infuses each piece with emotion and depth, capturing the complex interplay of beauty and dissonance that defines life.

“In the Garden on the Isle of Sobeks”: One of my earliest memories is of a crocodile walking through the garden on a sunny morning, just after the rain. It dragged itself over my mum’s flowers, crushing them as it passed. I remember the smell of the broken petals, the glitter of its scales, and the warmth of the rain-soaked earth in the sun.
When I think of it now, I get a sudden, vivid flash—lurid colour, shining scales, the scent of flowers and rain. While I didn’t set out to make a painting specifically about this memory, I thought of it often while painting it and I think that’s what it became about.