The Artist · Hanna Thistle
On color, sunlight, and the joy of no rules.
Multidisciplinary artist and digital designer creating color-forward worlds through painting, sculpture, fashion, music, and the web.
Hanna
Thistle
The artist · Portrait, 2025
Art is a way of life. It is the outfit you create each day. It is the music you color the atmosphere with. It is the conversations you create, the food you plate, the ideas you bring to life in full color — a daily practice of using your light to alchemize everything into beauty.
From the studio · 2025
I am a sunshine girl, chronically addicted to the light. I make work the way I move through a day — music loud, windows open, dancing barefoot between the canvas and the color. My studio is never still.
Color is light made visible. Each shade carries its own wavelength, its own frequency, and its own energy — which is why color can shift a room before a single word is spoken. I believe light, color, sound, emotion, and frequency are all threads of the same living fabric, and the artist is the alchemist who transmutes feeling into form.
Growing up, I was taught to color inside the lines. Those rules shaped my hand, but they also gave me a lasting love for the exact opposite: a blank canvas, my own lines, and the freedom to create whatever I can imagine.
I am a colorful maximalist. I believe the only rules in art are to be beautiful and to be fun — and that the most serious thing a work can do is make you feel alive.
Hanna Thistle, from the studio.
Artist statement
Being an artist is not only the paintings you make.
It is the outfit you put together — which is why Hanna is building Butter Body Basics, her clothing line, where getting dressed becomes its own canvas. It is the makeup you paint on. It is the music you color the atmosphere with. It is the conversations you create.
A daily practice of turning everything into beauty. Canvas, fabric, face, playlist, dinner table: same hand, same eye, same joy.
The CYWL lifestyle
Color Your Wellness Lifestyle.
I am the creator of the CYWL lifestyle and platform — a reminder that wellness is not one color, but the full spectrum. THE CYWL CREATIVE is the creative house where it all comes together.
Creativity is the orange pillar: the spark that says you are allowed to design your own days, dress your own body, curate your own atmosphere, and build a life that feels unmistakably like you.
You hold the paintbrush. Go paint the masterpiece that is your life — and have fun doing it. That's the whole point.
Continue through the house
Step into the work.
Selected exhibitions
- 2026Soft Spectrum, soloPrivate viewing room, Berlin · Upcoming
The inner circle · Transmissions from the color world
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