Love Hannington
Artist & Medicine Woman
Love Hannington is a British multidisciplinary artist whose work explores women, nature and ancestral memory through painting and mixed media. Drawing from botanical symbolism, folklore and the spiritual traditions of her Afro Caribbean and Celtic heritage, she creates richly layered works that examine the relationship between memory, landscape and the feminine.
Working with acrylic, oil, collage and hand sewn elements, Love builds each painting through expressive mark making, texture and symbolic detail. Cowrie shells, crystals, stitched textiles and botanical forms appear throughout her work, carrying personal, cultural and historical meaning. Every material is chosen with intention, creating paintings that invite sustained looking and reward repeated encounters.
Her artistic practice is informed by animism and a lifelong reverence for the natural world. Plants are more than subjects. They become storytellers, witnesses and vessels of inherited knowledge. The women who inhabit her paintings carry histories that reach beyond the individual, holding echoes of myth, ancestry and lived experience.
Love's own journey with endometriosis, PCOS and adenomyosis has deeply influenced her understanding of the body as a place of memory, resilience and intuition.
This ongoing relationship with womanhood continues to shape her work, informing paintings that honour beauty, embodiment and the wisdom held within the natural cycles of life.
Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Maritime Museum, presented in Trafalgar Square and featured on Channel 4's Big Breakfast Reboot. Alongside her studio practice, she facilitates workshops and conversations exploring creativity, symbolism and our relationship with the natural world.
Whether working on an intimate study or a large scale painting, Love approaches each piece as an act of inquiry. Her work asks how memory is carried through people, plants and place, and how art can preserve the stories that shape who we become.
Love Hannington
Love is available for talks on Art, Art as Healing, Creative Wellness, Esotericism, Spiritual & Folk Herbalism, Workshops, Keynotes and Shows. To discuss appearances, email hello@lovehannington.com
CV
Artist Contributor | March 2026- August 2026
Museum X, Royal Maritime Museum
Participating artist contributor, reviewing and co-creating museum guides on RMG collections from a socially informed, African-Diasporic perspective of histories and culture.
Artist Facilitator and Workshop Lead | January- March 2026
Royal Maritime Museum
Created, developed and delivered “Medicine, Myth, Water and Spirit”, a three-part workshop series exploring the migration of African Diasporic spiritual traditions by responding to the collections of the National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House. This series is being recommissioned for 26-27.
Artist Facilitator | March 2026
Springer Nature Publishing
Sickle cell fundraiser, Designed, coordinated and delivered a “paint and sip” style workshop for this scientific publishing client, running across three time zones. Prepared cultural storytelling and materials across regions allowing global participation and accessibility to the arts.
Family Programmes Facilitator Support Temp | Jan 2025 - Apr 2025, Oct 2025- Jan 2026
Royal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House, and Cutty Sark
Coordinated and supported delivery of a busy family programme across three heritage sites
Prepared workshop materials, managed spaces, liaised with porters, and ensured timely setup for family activities
Copywriting for workshops on Website
Supported freelance facilitators in delivering inclusive, trauma-informed sessions for diverse families
Maintained SEND-accessible standards and neurodivergent-inclusive environments
Delivered morning briefings to visitor staff, ensured visibility of signage and availability of refreshments
Managed evaluation forms and recorded attendance for monitoring and reporting
Oversaw self-led family programmes including trail distribution and family backpacks
Guest Artist Facilitator | June 2025-Present
HMP Thameside
Designed and delivered a trauma-informed art wellness session, allowing Male inmates to express feelings through art.
Resident Artist ReThink | August 2024
Royal Museums Greenwich
Designed and facilitated a one-week residency with young people aged 14–20
Focused on mental wellbeing and nature connection, in response to the Women of the RNLI exhibition
Delivered a curated public display within the National Maritime Museum
Guest Artist Facilitator | July 2024
The Vagina Museum, “My Period the ****block Play”
Designed and facilitated a trauma-informed womb wellness art session, allowing guests to create speak freely about womb conditions.
Freelance Artist Facilitator Discover Sundays & Half-Term Programming | 2023 - Present
Royal Museums Greenwich
Developing and delivering inclusive, themed and untitled workshops across heritage events
Engaged families from varied backgrounds during events such as Windrush Day, Refugee Week, LGBTQ+ Month, with over 250 participants per session
Founder & Facilitator | 2023 - Present
Mindful Paint and Sips, Love Hannington Art and Soul Ltd
Intuitive painting and women's circle format sessions supporting healing through creativity
Designing workshops, sourcing venues, liaising with suppliers, leading marketing
Artist Speaker Upgrade Yourself Festival, Art & Mindset Talk | November 2023
Somerset House, The Collective Makers
A mindset talk for emerging artists, discussing self-therapeutic and trauma-aware approaches to individual art practice outside of studio practice.
Artist Facilitator Affirmations Workshop | 2023
The Black Wellbeing Collective CIC
Led portrait-making workshops with vulnerable racialised adults, supporting empowerment through self-expression
Artist Facilitator Goddess of Water Workshops | 2020 - 2021
Carib and Co Brunch CIC
Family-friendly sessions exploring African Diasporic water myths with neurodivergent-inclusive practice
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Senior Digital Producer/ Project Manager | AR/VR + App Projects
Various Companies & Charities; Monterosa,YoungMinds, Zappar, Apache | 2015 - 2023
Led six and seven-figure creative projects for JMW Turner Exhibition, Disney, Cartoon Network, Angry Birds, British Olympic Association, and others
Delivered international experiences including installations, youth co-creation, and virtual exhibitions
Winner of Revo Opal Award for experiential design 2017
Judge for Augmented Reality Awards 2019
Competencies: Project management, budget management, artist commissioning, youth engagement and co-creation, cross-team collaboration, liaising with bluechip clients.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
International Women’s Day | Candid Arts Trust | Mar 2024
The World Reimagined | National Maritime Museum | Apr- Aug 2023
Warriors- Queens Exhibition | Co-Curator | Shades of Brown Art Collective | Oct 2022
Still We Rise | Co-Curator | Jun 2022 | Engaged community in interactive diasporic art
The World Reimagined Art Trail | Jun- Oct 2022 | 1.6m globe on Yoruba folklore
TV APPEARANCES
The Big Breakfast | Channel 4 / ITV | Sep 2021
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Trauma Informed Practices | Kazzum Arts x RMG | 2024
Foundation in Psychodynamic Counselling | The Counselling Foundation | 2022
CPD: Moving into Management | The Centre | 2020
CPD: Digital Youth Work | RedThread | 2020
BA Marketing Communications | University of Westminster | 2014
Exhibitions
International Women’s Day | March 2024 | Candid Arts Gallery
National Maritime Museum Exhibition | April- August 2023 | The World Reimagined
Windrush 75 Exhibition| May 2023 | Zita Holbourne TUC
OXO Bargehouse Group Show | March 2023 | OXO Bargehouse
Lockton Insurance Black Art Exhibition | October 2022 | Nefateri Art
Warriors-Queens Exhibition | October 2022 | Shades of Brown Art Collective
Still We Rise Exhibition | June 2022 | Shades of Brown Art Collective
The World Reimagined Art Trail | June- October 2022 | The World Reimagined
Black History Month Exhibition | October 2021 | Carib and Co Brunch CIC
The Big Breakfast | September 2021 | Channel 4 / ITV (Artwork appearance on TV)
Miniature Art | May 2021 | Tebbs Contemporary Gallery
Black History Month Exhibition | October 2020 | Birmingham Contemporary Art Gallery
Black History Art Exhibition | October 2020 | Carib and Co Brunch CIC
Black Pound Day Art Exhibition | September 2020 | Carib and Co Brunch CIC