Artist & Founder
Hannah Richardson Reid
“My work balances design with intuition, using colour that bleeds and reverberates – completed only by the viewer’s eye. The pieces evolve gradually, embracing texture and imperfection, and unfold through a meditative process—one that I hope resonates with those who experience them.”
About
After many years as a design leader at major museums and galleries, Hannah craved the space to explore her innate love of colour and texture in a more personal way. She began this shift by deep research into colour theory, abstract minimalism and Japanese textile traditions.
Through extensive trial and error she developed her unique method of ‘weaving with dye’ using pure linen and layers of textile dye both immersed and hand painted. Emerging through a meditative and intuitive process, the linen holds the memory of each layer until the pieces reverberate with a sense of weightless colour. These pieces become both standalone original artworks and the basis for Bleed Studio’s unique art textiles.
Central to her practise is the desire to interrogate the complex colours we see all around us, particularly in nature where there are no singular or ‘flat’ colours. Escaping names and definitions, the colours of our environment are made up of a plethora of subtle tones and shifts continually changing through the light of the day.
For Hannah, it has always been these fleeting shifts of colour and light that add moments of quiet joy to her day. Bleed Studio represents a desire to create more of these moments for others with approachable pieces that invite people to begin collecting art without the overwhelm. By providing limited edition, art textiles at an entry level price she hopes to encourage customers to take the first step in buying pieces that bring colour and emotion into their spaces.