About
Hannah Finch
Free Range Artist
I am a self taught painter, designer, and muralist based in Colorado. My work lives where the natural world and the cosmos overlap. I build up many translucent layers so my large space paintings feel both accurate and surreal. They glow in the dark and reveal hidden colors in blacklight, like you have stepped into a small slice of the universe.
Alongside the galaxies, I paint colorful pet portraits, create murals and public art, and make stained glass and one of a kind lights from reclaimed objects. Whether it is a nebula or someone’s dog, I want the piece to feel alive and a little bit magical. My favorite feedback is when someone says, “I feel like I know this sky,” or “That is exactly my dog.”
Art, for me, is a way of connecting with a world that is often strange and confounding. And astoundingly, painfully beautiful.
It is how I process awe, grief, curiosity, and the very specific feeling of being a tiny human under a huge sky. Some of that story comes through in a Guggenheim interview I did with my sister, where we talk about art as healing and how creativity helped me find my way back to myself.
Free Range Artist is my way of living a big, curious life and inviting other people into it. When you bring one of my pieces into your home or space, you are not just buying a painting. You are bringing in a small window into the way I see the world. Glowing. Vibrant. And so alive.
Outside of the Studio
Mountains. Travel. Inspiration.
A lot of my art starts long before I ever pick up a brush.
I grew up dancing and spent years training and performing. That sense of rhythm, movement, and presence still shows up in how I compose a painting.
I think of each piece almost like choreography. There is a flow to where your eye lands first and how it moves through color and light.
I also spend as much time as I can outside. I have climbed some of Colorado’s most technical 14ers, backpacked, skied, skydived, and traveled New Zealand solo for ten weeks. I am a Wilderness First Responder and AIARE trained backcountry traveler, which means I have logged a lot of hours in places where the stars feel very close and the mountains quietly rearrange your priorities.
Those long days and cold nights in the high country stay with me. The paintings are one way I hold on to those moments. At my happiest, my life rotates between three things. Time in wild places. Time in the studio. Time using creativity and storytelling for good.
When you support my art, you support that whole loop. The hikes, the late nights, the “what if I tried this” experiments, and the joy of creating something that did not exist before.
Looking for my business consulting?
In addition to painting, I work as a brand storyteller and producer, mainly with companies in construction, technology, and the built world.
My philosophy is simple. No one owes us their attention. We have to earn it. I care about relevant, human centered content that builds real connection over time.
These days I specialize in helping teams turn complex, technical topics into clear, honest stories. I have worked on everything from customer films and conference keynotes to social series and event experiences. I am especially at home in spaces where innovation meets real human hands. Think AI for construction, digital workflows for infrastructure, and the people who actually use those tools on the ground.
If you are interested in my consulting work around brand storytelling, content strategy, or video production, you can learn more here.
Feel free to contact me here if you're interested in working together.
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