www.david-hunt.net

biography

david hunt

1968Born: Northampton, UK

2010-2011

2007-2010

MA Fine Art: University of Northampton.

BA(hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing:

Univerisity of Northampton.

 
awards:
Jul 2008

17th Wellingborough Open: First Place

Best Professional

exhibitions:

Sep 2010

Jul 2010

Jul 2010

Jun 2010

Mar 2009

Feb 2009

Jul 2008

Jun 2007

Feb 2007

Dec 2006

Welford Open Studios, Northampton

JGallery, Moulton, Northampton

Free Range, Brick Lane, London.

Summer Show, UCN, Northampton.

Spring Show, UCN, Northampton.

Wrenn School Gallery, Wellingborough.

The Castle, Wellingborough.

MK40 Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes.

Madcap Theatre, Wolverton, MK.

Wesbury Farm Studios, Shenly, MK.

  
private collections:

USA, UK.

public collections:

Madcap Theatre, Wolverton, MK.

Borough Council of Wellingborough.


artist Statement                  david hunt

 


 

The natural landscape informs my work, but then so does the urban landscape. I place these subjects against each other in order to explore contemporary notions of landscape whilst maintaining a discourse with historical landscape painting. I aim for my work to respond  to both the history of landscape painting and the desire to expand upon that history, whereby landscape painting might continue to capture the imagination of a 21st century audience.

 

The natural and urban environments contain the physical matter which might be thought of as my subject matter, however the true subject matter of my painting is not a physical, tangible thing. Traditionally, landscape painting might be thought of as ‘a window on theworld’, I feel that my work is perhaps more like ‘a window on the mind’ and so in order to paint my subject, I draw upon the physical matter of both environments, where the asymmetry of the natural landscape is in juxtaposition against the linearity of the urban environment. These boundaries or lines become a metaphorical paradox between both environmental paradigms. My subject matter is therefore in limbo, somewhere between the figuration of representation, and the lyricism of abstraction, somewhere between the physical world and the subconscious mind.