Hazel MacCrann is an Irish painter from County Roscommon, now living and working in County Sligo, whose work focuses on the act of painting as a process of discovery. She has a background in Psychology and web design, which she left to pursue fine art, earning an MA in Creative Practice through Fine Art from Atlantic Technological University in 2021. Her paintings explore the relationship between chance, the body, and the act of painting itself, capturing what is on the edge of awareness through a process she describes as "dramatic embodiment of thoughts and emotions.