About the Artist

    Art making has been part of KC Hancock’s life since the time she was able to pick up a pencil. She has taken art classes throughout her life and has always been in the midst of creative projects. Since her late teens, she has been inspired by feelings and images that represented a world beyond the usual day-to-day experience; something more expansive, elemental, evolutionary, cellular, organic... She studied various forms of Eastern and Western philosophy. Her academic interests took her into anthropology and psychology. Completing a graduate degree in Transpersonal Psychology brought art, spirituality and psychology together and during this time KC began working in the expressive arts. She had the wonderful opportunity to study with Expressive Arts educator and counselor Natalie Rogers, the daughter of Humanistic Psychologist, Carl Rogers. Expressive arts became the closest way for KC to experience and express this “other” world and in 2004, she took an art class that transformed her life.

    This pivotal class was a monotype class given by Portland artist, William Park at the Sitka Center on the Oregon Coast. KC developed a deep passion for this art form and after many months of classes and working in this medium “off hours,” it became impossible for her to ignore her deep love of the work. She made the shift from working as a middle manager to full time artist in July of 2005.

   With attention to her ever-present effort to describe the indescribable, most of Hancock’s work is abstract expression; often including organic geometric shapes that express what thoughts or feelings in an internal landscape might be like. Monotype provides her with a way to explore, at a deep soul level, images that represent emotions and an experience of the formless; to experiment with an elemental dialogue that can have a mystical feel. Her work is alive with the colors and textures that are unique to print making inks and papers.

Exhibitions and Shows

Lane Community College Art Center “40 Works” Group Show Feb – March 2011

Salem Art Association, Bush Barn Art Gallery, OR

Keizer Art Association, Teacher’s Group Show July 2010

Featured Artist with Brenda Marks “Inside Out” Lunaria Gallery, Silverton, Sept 2007

Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, June 2007, Group Juried Show

Solo Juried Show: Enid Joy Mount Gallery, Keizer, August 2007

Open Studio Shows, January 2006 & 2007

Mary Lou Zeek Gallery 2006 little shrines project invitational, February 2006, Salem

Solo Show, Newberg Gallery, Newberg, OR, April, 2006

Salem Public Library, Salem, OR, February 2006

 “Celebrating December – Something Red”, Salem Downtown December 2005

Black, White, & Gray Show, Enid Mount Gallery, Keizer, OR, Nov. 2005

Created various classes in Monotype Print Making, Collage, Expressive Arts, and Art Journaling.