Hannah-Sophia Guerriero (b. 2002, Oldham, UK) is a UK-based painter whose work is held in several private collections, including the Ryan Taylor Collection. In 2024, she completed Louise Giovanelli’s Apollo Painting School programme. In 2025, Guerriero was selected for the Artworks Special feature in GalleriesNow (April edition). Working in the legacy of Northern Renaissance precision, her practice interrogates the contemporary sublime through the mechanics of scale, attention, and duration. By either distilling dense materiality into the proportions of the handheld screen or marooning fragments within an expansive void, Guerriero generates a spatial excess that counters the visual saturation of digital culture. Through strategies of glazing, veiling, and formal restraint, she stages the painting as both image and object—holding the viewer within a paradox of intimacy and inaccessibility. This is a commitment to the slow image: a mode of resistance where meaning emerges through the reclaimed necessity of a singular gaze.