About The Artist

Ms. Hammond graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fines Arts and received her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an art educator and currently teaches for The Saturday Arts Lab, part of the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She currently resides in Moorestown, NJ where she was born and raised where she lives with her husband Stephen, and son Noah. My art education began in high school and continues to this very day. As an art educator I have rediscovered an immediate and uninhibited instinct. Often my students are the teacher, and my goal to challenge and inspire them is handed back to me in the process. My work would fit the description of realistic, yet it is in the actual act of painting that I inevitably am taken beyond a mere description of what I see. The paint itself, color, and the glossary of artistic language are what inspire me and elicit a personal transformation in each work of art. I end up translating a spirit and mood that emanates through me from what I feel and see. Though I paint many different genres, a good friend whose love for film and especially old black & whites, has had an influence on my subject matter. The light, mood, and atmosphere dominant in this genre I find liberating and moving. Using old family photos has also been a source of inspiration for some recent work, it has provided me the opportunity to connect with family and friends and an inner voice.