Artist Statement
Hazel has enjoyed working with clergy and laity to create a very large number of successful commissions. She describes her work as "a process that has become a way of reaching the source, the numinous parts of the pysche. It has been a journey of testing out new approaches". Indeed "this process has opened the work up to become a powerful source of healing for everyone".
She studied Fine Art in England at Loughborough, Liverpool and London Universities. In the States she has taught at all levels and age groups including undergraduate and postgraduate.
She has designed chapel sized exhibits in all cathedrals, and through poster sets, all churches throughout the United Kingdom, and had solo and group shows in galleries in London and Birmingham.
She has also exhibited in Manhattan with the United Nations three times. Universities there and in upstate New York, and extensively in galleries in: New Mexico, Illinois, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, San Francisco, New Hampshire, and Galveston, Texas. Also church venues, including St Martin's Episcopal Church and with the National Catholic conference, and a solo show at the EDOT Gallery which is part of the Bishop’s offices in the Episcopalian diocese of Texas in downtown Houston.
A large series of her artworks was included in a major exhibition "Reversing the Gaze" which toured major venues- galleries and museums in several states, starting in San Francisco, then The Kinsey Institute Museum in Bloomington Indiana.
Recently her work has been shown online a great deal and her paintings have been at Itheca College NY and La Galeria, Boricua College in Manhattan, and Birmingham City University in the UK.
There are also many chances to catch her work online, including ECVA Exhibitions.