Neil Hann

13 June

Rocks Beneath a Mangrove Tree, acrylic on canvas, by Neill Hann

Norfolk Path, pencil on paper, by Neil Hann

My name is Neil Hann and I am a retired art teacher. I recently moved from rural South Australia to Coochiemudlo Island, a totally new landscape from the red, rugged, and arid Flinders Rangers where I lived.

My love of nature has me exploring the landscape for the sublime natural designs thrown up by eons of building and eroding, uplifting and crumbling, rising and falling, living and dying that make up our natural environment.

My love of modernist art has me exploring the aesthetics of abstract elements of colour, shape and line as a means of expressing the wonders that I find in the natural world.

I find myself treading a narrow path on which the natural world and an abstract construct are hopefully telling the same story – one of finding the sublime in nature and making something sublime from it with brush and paint.

See Neil’s work at:

Studio #1, 9 Ross Street (Ross Street Gallery)

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

https://sitecontent.com.au

Neil Hann

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