About Hannah Phelps

A native of the rugged and alluring northern New England, award-winning printmaker Hannah Phelps’s relief prints are the result of a continuous exploration of the world outside her window and the forces at work there. With either watercolor and a wooden spoon or oil ink and an etching press, she creates seascape and landscape prints using plein air paintings as inspiration and reference.

Among other exhibits over the years, Hannah was invited to participate in the “Average Path Length” print collection, which traveled around the United States. In the fall of 2012, her jigsaw reduction relief print, Private Wave, was juried into the prestigious 74th American Color Print Society Annual Fall Exhibit. The previous summer, her white-line woodcut, Calm Day at Fort Stark, won first prize in the National Small Works Exhibit, earning her a solo exhibition in summer 2012 at the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Silver Spring, MD.

In 2015, Hannah became a Juried Member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and her jigsaw reduction woodblock print, Turbulence on Appledore, won the Gorst Print Award in the Living with Craft Exhibit at the Annual Fair at Mount Sunapee that summer. In 2019, her jigsaw prints, Winter Birch and Winter Shadows, won the Robbins-Waters Libby Print Award for Best in Printmaking at the Art, Craft and Design exhibit and Nelson Crag, October won the same award in 2022.

Hannah is also a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.

When Hannah is not painting on the coast of New England, you can find her printmaking in New Boston and Peterborough, NH.