Hannah Eddy grew up on the southern coast of Maine, a scribbler from the age of five. “I always drew really fun, imaginative stuff. When I got older, I was super into drawing dragons and mythical creatures,” she says. “I remember my parents being like, ‘Wow, that’s surprisingly good and also really weird. Where did you come up with that?’ They still say that to this day about my art.” 

She got into sailing thanks to her dad, who worked as a sailboat builder and fiberglass distributor. He was also the one who got her her first snowboard when she was seven. She learned to ride on the slopes of Sugarloaf in Maine and loved it instantly. Her grandma gifted her a skateboard and she taught herself to do ollies in her driveway. By high school, you could find Eddy surfing the freezing waters off the coast of Maine or competing in snowboard slopestyle or halfpipe contests. “I was always riding boards of some kind,” she says. 

While studying oil painting at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she competed on the snowboard team and did some filming and rail jams. She dreamed of one day creating art for her own snowboard. “I never knew that could actually be a job,” she says.  

After college, she moved to Tahoe and got a job working in a bakery. She was still making art on her own time, and occasionally had pieces in local galleries. “Art felt like a good therapeutic balance in my life,” Eddy says. “I’m active and outside all day, but then I get into a painting, and I get super into the moment. It feels meditative.” 

Eddy and her husband, pro snowboarder Tim Eddy, moved to Reno, Nevada, a couple of years ago, where they’ve built a project called DoRadical, a media platform that encourages people to think outside the box. She is focused mostly on creating digital art these days, although a corner of her house remains stacked with acyclic canvases.   

She says she pulls inspiration from the environments where she’s playing, whether that’s a surf break in Baja or a remote, snow-covered peak in the Sierra Nevada. “My work is fun, colorful, lighthearted,” she says. “It evokes a feeling, a connection to the natural world. There’s a lot of action and form that I play off of.” 

In her latest collection of goggles and helmets from Giro, Eddy worked to incorporate the image of fading mountain peaks, inspired by the view from the top.

To check out more of Hannah’s personal work, find her on Instagram @hannaheddyart