HANSEN was born in 1960 in Toho, a beautiful and pristine hamlet in West Kalimantan (Borneo). The purity and beauty of the environment in which he grew up stimulated young HANSEN to become deeply interest in visual arts, especially drawing, a hobby that became deeply embedded in his life even in adulthood. He has had his share of overseas travels and adventures. He returned to Indonesia in 1990 and resided in Bandung, West Java for 13 years until he moved to Bali in 2003. In 1967, HANSEN served as an apprentice to a painter who instilled in the boy's young mind a solid foundation that later became essential to his artistic development. In 1980, he studied mechanical design in Taipei, Taiwan. Simultaneously, he seized this opportunity to study abroad as a vehicle to further develop his artistic talent. Soon after graduating from college 1984, he worked for an American yacth manufacturing company as a designer and technical drawing specialist. During this time, HANSEN took a Yacht design specialization study at Westlawn School of Yacht Design in Connecticut. While continuing the cultivation of his artistic talent in the United States, HANSEN was directly influenced by an architect and painter, Ms.Georgian. Under her guidance, he developed his own sense of style marked by an original and distinctive play of strokes that are characteristically simple and spontaneous. Yet his works overflow with reflections of life in its myriad manifestations - reflection that are both subtle and philosophical. As a result, the artist developed a unique style that is a mixture of semi abstract and minimalist art.

"Connection" is the clearest way to describe Hansen's art. You cab see the colors and different techniques being connected. Creating unity, without boundaries of space and time. "Connection is a combination of the latin "com" (with) and "ecti" (action movement, dancing). His paintings are a celebration of the inner dancing, movement within. The movements are not part of a chaotic explosion, but every singe detail connected to the next color, to the next calligraphy, to the next collage. That is what Hansen shows in his work: different way of communication between every thing and every being. Looking at the Hansen's painting is like talking to him without words. Words are rational and limited in expression where colors and form arent's. They open new interpretations and offer the viewer to create his own dialogue. The process of creation is rooted in the beginning of our universe where no words existed but vibrations, establishing light, colors, form and matter. This process continues through time, it is still present in the expanding universes and is us. Hansen indicates in his work that we are part of this creation, inviting the viewer to connect with life beyond questions, fears and desires, and rediscover that we have always been connected. (A. Leone, German - Italy writer. Germany - 2003)