Jean Hansen has thirty years experience in the field of Decorative Arts as a student, teacher, designer, retailer, and distributor. She is often recognized for her strokework in Early American Tole Painting and Rosemahling Techniques. She is perhaps best known for her teaching and design contributions to the Art of Theorem Painting, her focus, since the early 1980s.

She has taught at numerous national and regional conventions for the National Society of Decorative Painters and The Stencil Artisans League.

Her designs have also been frequently featured in such publications as Painting Magazine, Tole World, Priscilla Hauser’s Workbook, Kinder Bears by Binney & Smith, Craftworks for the Home, Paintworks, and Somerset Magazine.

Jean has also published the first two books in full color on Theorem Painting, Touch of Velvet I and Touch of Velvet II, as well as her Touch of Velour Theorem Kits which include over 120 laser-cut, multi-layered designs which are available in several sizes.