Meet Abby Hanneman
Abby Hanneman is an artist and writer whose work explores creativity, joy, and the quiet evolution that comes from staying curious over a lifetime.
After nearly four decades in photography, Abby recently found her way to printmaking, where she works primarily with collagraphs using non-toxic materials. She is drawn to abstraction, texture, and restraint, and to creative processes that are physical, deliberate, and grounded in presence.
Alongside her visual practice, Abby writes about creativity, midlife evolution, and what it means to stay engaged with life. She is the author of The Ripple Effect of Joy and Live Wire: 90 Days to Reclaim Your Wild,
Your Wit and Your Will, a guided journal created to help readers reconnect with what lights them up.
The ocean has been a constant source of joy and clarity throughout Abby’s life. Time in the water—bodysurfing, bodyboarding, moving with waves—continues to shape how she works, listens, and creates.
Abby currently lives in San Diego, where she balances time in the studio, the water, and at the blank page, following curiosity wherever it leads.
Books & Writing
Abby is the author of The Ripple Effect of Joy and the creator of Live Wire, a 90-day guided journal. Her writing explores joy, creativity, and the quiet shifts that happen when we stay curious and engaged over time.
Visual Art
Abby’s visual work spans photography, painting, and printmaking, with a current focus on collagraph-based printmaking. Her work explores structure, texture, and restraint, and is rooted in process, material, and attention. Selected work coming soon.
Ways of Working
Abby’s work is grounded in independent creative practice, writing, and visual exploration. While not currently offering workshops or gatherings, she remains interested in thoughtful exchange around process, creativity, and lifelong learning.
My Vision
My vision is simple and lived rather than aspirational: to stay engaged with creativity, joy, and curiosity as daily practices. I’m interested in how attention, making, and staying open over time can quietly shape a life—and how creative work can serve as a place of listening, reflection, and renewal.
This isn’t about fixing or transforming the world, but about remaining awake to it.
My Mission
My work centers on making and writing as ways of paying attention. Through visual art and words, I explore creativity, joy, and the subtle evolution that comes from continuing to learn and create over a lifetime.
Rather than offering instruction or solutions, my intention is to share work that invites reflection, presence, and a deeper relationship with one’s own creative life.