Hannah Nunn

Though a city girl by birth, Hannah found great inspiration in the countryside when she studied ‘Crafts’ at Carmarthen college in West Wales. There she stayed for many years, raising her two small children, sketching and drawing in the fields and woodland and gathering her ideas. When her children became of school age she moved back up North settling in Hebden Bridge, a buzzing creative town, between Manchester and her hometown of Leeds. The perfect mix! Close to the city but with an abundance of nature, moments from the front door!

She joined Northlight Studio, then situated at the top of an old textile mill with wide views across the valley. There she found the support and inspiration to introduce her work to the wider world. She made a range of paper cut greetings cards which made it to Libertys, Harrods, Paperchase  and many beautiful craft galleries across the country.Whilst holding her paper cuts up to the light to enjoy the silhouettes they created, the idea of making lamps and lampshades seemed the next exciting step.

The Arts Council supported the idea with a Research and Development grant and months were spent cutting, sticking, thinking and sketching until the first Hannah Nunn lamp was born! She took her first collection to the British Craft Trade Fair in 2003 and her lamps were taken up by many lovely craft galleries, some of which still stock her work all these years later.

Hannah always fancied having a shop front of her own with a workshop attached. Enthralled and inspired by many of her contempories working with light, she thought it would be wonderful to bring them all together into one glowing space. In 2005 the perfect premises became available and Radiance was born! The shop has recently moved to beautiful new premises in central Market Street, Hebden Bridge and is now set in the downstairs floor of large Victorian townhouse. It's alcoves, fireplaces and lovely bay window give it a really homely feel (virtual tour here). Hannah has her lamp making workshop at the back of the shop and enjoys the balance between sourcing and selling beautiful lamps, lighting and homewares from many other artists and makers AND designing and making her own work too. She continues to make new designs, constantly inspired by the natural world, refining her hand cutting technique and employing fantastic laser cutting technology for exquisite delicacy (and to ease her cutting arm!).

Hannah also has an Etsy shop and sends packages to happy customers all around the world. Other online shops include NotOnTheHighStreet, Bouf and Decogalerie based in France.

Hannah enjoys keeping a blog too where she writes about ideas and inspirations....and other random things that go on in her day to day life. It's a great way to keep in touch with what's going on and leave comments and feedback.