Hannah Battershell is a London based artist whose work spans from miniature paintings on buttons to collages with Japanese papers. Her interest lies in teasing out the narratives to be found in the overlooked or throwaway items encountered in day to day life. Scraps of paper, matchboxes, pins and buttons become the main focus of each piece, seemingly insignificant objects are bestowed an almost talismanic quality. Her gothic leanings and dark subject matters are always tempered by a silly sense of humour, often lending her work the 'quirky exuberance of a children’s story book' (Kate Weir, Spoonfed).

Her work has been displayed in various exhibitions including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011, the 2011 National Open Art Competition and the Macmillan Cancer Support weekend at The Curwen Gallery. Her painting 'Crocodilian' has been selected to appear in 'Images 36', the Association of Illustrators' Best of New British Illustration publication. Look out for her stand at the Untitled Artists' Fair in Chelsea in June 2012.