Creativity, Joy, and the Art of Staying Curious

Art and Writing
by Abby Hanneman

Exploring creativity, midlife evolution, and what lights us up.

What Abby Offers

Live Wire 90-Day Journal

Your next chapter starts with a single page. Say yes to your wild, your wit, and your will.

Books and Insights

Explore my latest writings focused on joy and soulful relationships.

Vibrant abstract painting featuring bold blue, red, and yellow hues on canvas.

Artistic Showcase

Discover my photography and paintings that celebrate creativity. Coming Soon!

Abby Hanneman: A Life Shaped by Curiosity

Abby Hanneman is an artist and writer whose work is driven by a lifelong refusal to stop learning, looking, and showing up fully to whatever comes next.

For decades she worked in photography, drawn to abstraction, texture, and the discipline of truly seeing. Then came writing. Then painting. Then printmaking — a medium she arrived at six months ago and has pursued with the focused intensity of someone who recognizes something important when it finds them.

Creativity, for Abby, is not a destination or a personal brand. It’s a practice. A way of moving through the world with attention, honesty, and enough wildness to keep things interesting.

That perspective shapes everything — the prints, the writing, the journals she creates for women ready to reclaim their own aliveness.

What Shapes My Work

Curiosity Over a Lifetime

My creative path spans photography, writing, painting, and now printmaking—each medium deepening my relationship with form, texture, and quiet complexity.

Hands-On Making

I’m drawn to slow, physical processes that reward attention and patience. Printmaking, in particular, feels like a return to something elemental.

Staying Lit Up

Joy has been my compass—found in the ocean, in making, and in staying open to what wants to emerge next.

Stay Connected

Follow Abby’s work through writing, visual art, and reflections shaped by
creativity, joy, and a life close to the ocean.

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