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t’s always exciting and a bit like
spring to watch budding artists put
forth those early works, to witness
their rudimentary efforts to commit
to paper or canvas their unique
perspective on form and beauty.
“I was like OK! Wow! OK,” said
Springtown mom Stacy Nather about
her daughter’s work. Hannah just
turned 14. She’s always enjoyed
drawing and doodling and other
artistic or crafty activities.
“Both her dad [Jason Nather] and
I have enjoyed different artistic things
in the past,” Stacy said. “He loved to
draw when he was in high school,
and I did too. And I loved pottery and
things of that nature. But when we
started seeing the stuff that she was
doing we were really both like ‘Oh,
my gosh!’ It was different altogether.”
Hannah’s art had that intangible
something that separates the artist
from the casual dauber. “We could
see that she just had a real talent,”
mom said.
Of course at the base of it all
is fun and a sense of expressive
freedom.
“I like to create my own world,
kind of, and I just feel free, and I sit
there and draw for hours,” Hannah
said. “Everybody watches me, but I
really don’t like people watching me;
so I put on my headphones and listen
to music the whole time and turn
it up enough to where I can’t hear
anybody.”
Over the past couple of years
Hannah’s commitment to art has
deepened considerably. Her focus
has narrowed to particular subject
matter.
“I’ve always really loved to look
at people’s faces, even when I was
younger,” she explained. “I just like
stare at people’s eyes. I’ll be like
really focused on them and they say
‘What are you looking at?’”
“That’s true,” her mother agreed
adding, “Sometimes it was like ‘stop
staring at people!’”
Moved by her fascination with
eyes, about two years ago Hannah
started drawing them, a “ton” of
them. One thing lead to another
and about a year ago she moved
on to faces. A casual perusal of her
rendition of The Flash, that red-clad
speedster of first DC Comics and now
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