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!

Six years later Hannah’s lamps can be found in around seventy lovely shops and galleries up and down the UK. 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!). She recently opened an Etsy Shop and is now sending paercels out to happy customers around the globe. She enjoys keeping an artists blog about her work, inspiration and development.

She now works from her studio at her dazzling studio/shop Radiance in Hebden Bridge. Enthralled and inspired by the work of other makers working with light, she thought it would make a beautiful glowing space if she brought them all together so in 2005 she opened Radiance and did just that! Here you can see Hannahs whole collection on display as well as lighting by around twenty other designers and makers.