Hannah Doeleman was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1952.

She has worked in Italy, the Philippines, the United States, Costa Rica, Holland and mainly in Colombia.

On the occasions of remaining in these countries for an extended period it has been her practice to work closely with local artists, give instruction and exhibit her work.

During the past years she works on commissions.

In Rome she collaborated with Emidio Antoci, who introduced her to painting outside of the studio, in the city and in the field.

In Manila Hannah Doeleman was a member of the “Mabinigroup”, painters around the master painter César Legaspi; the group was mainly dedicated to model-drawing.

While in Bogotá, Colombia, she periodically worked in the studio of Umberto Giangrandi, painter and master in graphic arts, where she learned silk-screen printing and held model-drawing sessions with other painters.

For a number of years, Hannah Doeleman was in association with a group of painters united in “Taller Trazo” where she had her studio. She worked at her painting, did metal etching, instructed in art and exhibited her work. The group regularly went to the field to paint landscapes and organised exhibitions, workshops and cultural meetings.

In Bogotá, apart from conducting private painting and drawing classes, Hannah Doeleman taught at the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano and at the Grammar School La Montaña. She has investigated and analysed the mental and interior processes involved in persons applying themselves to art-education and prepared a participatory presentation for who desires a creative existence.

In a Cultural Exchange Program, Hannah Doeleman and the Colombian artist Silvio Montoya, who lives in Holland, organised an exhibition of more than one hundred works of Contemporary Colombian Art, held in the House of Government of the South Province of Holland in The Hague. Upon closing at The Hague the exhibition was directed to several other locations of the Netherlands.

With the architect-artist Camilo Sandino, she has undertaken an interdisciplinary project Organic Architecture - Applied Visual Arts. They execute a concept that integrates plastic elements and the use of the organic and climatic elements of the surrounding Colombian Andes Highlands, modelling and constructing a building that forms naturally with the landscape. In Costa Rica they undertook a similar project in a dry wood at the Pacific coast.

When travelling or in transition, Hannah Doeleman regards photography as her medium.

She realised a series of photographs that register walls as documents that have been created by marks and changes, consciously and unconsciously made by human hands or formed by effects of the climate.

She took photographs of the sanctuaries along the Colombian roads, in memory of accidented persons.

She has extensively photographed Colombian women in their work circumstances and is photographing individual street sellers.

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In painting, actually she works on colourful compositions and portraits.

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