Things of God, Things of Man: The Low-Chroma Landscape
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Charlie Hunter’s landscape paintings capture the quiet, melancholic beauty of "rural deindustrialization" using a near-monochromatic, modified tonalist style that feels both timeless and deeply personal. His work is acclaimed for distilling complex scenes into essential, moody compositions that blend photographic realism with abstract, textural mark-making. For this workshop, each day’s class begins with a demonstration painting in which Hunter explains the decisions and choices made as the painting evolves. Students then work on their own, with an emphasis on design, mood, and finding one’s true “voice,” before all gather for lively group critique and discussion. Sketching to work out compositional challenges, use of water-mixable oils and unorthodox tools such as window washer’s squeegees, patterned paper towels, and washes of thin paint to create unique, almost photographic textures are all discussed. Experimentation and laughter is encouraged.www.charliehunter.art www.hunter-studio.com
Charlie Hunter
Using water-mixable oils and a reductive technique based on 19th century tonalism informed by modern reproduction processes, Charlie Hunter explores textual and graphic elements of contemporary representationalism. Organic yet irrevocably hinting at photography, Hunter’s work is simultaneously journalistic and deeply subjective. He lives and works in Bellows Falls, Vermont, 20 miles from where he grew up on the highland farm built by his great-great-great grandfather. "If it is within the realm of human evolution, or the whim of the Divine, to allow one individual to possess the gift of a natural sense of design, then Charlie Hunter is certainly the lucky winner... No master of the pure line can surpass what Charlie, almost matter-of-factly, does when he takes pencil in hand.” – Richard Schmid, ALLA PRIMA II. He exhibits at museums and galleries across the US and has been profiled in ARTSCOPE, VERMONT LIFE and PLEIN AIR. Curiously, his two cats remain entirely unimpressed.