© 2012 Steve Hunter. All rights reserved.
My encaustic painting The Conflation of Mars will be in the Spectrum 2012 show at the Carriage Barn Arts Center, from May 23rd through the 17th of June. I’ll be at the opening Wednesday May 23rd from 5 to 7 … Continue reading
Encaustic painting by Steve Hunter
These paintings are created by layering and scraping back the encaustic medium and paints. I often start with gestural mark making. These marks get hidden, modified, revealed – sometimes because they seem too revealing, more often because they spark other … Continue reading
© 2011 Steve Hunter. All rights reserved.
A fragile little assemblage of pigmented wax. Balance and movement led to something that seems like a figure – although far from human anatomy. Continue reading
Encaustic and pastel painting by Steve Hunter
The luscious wax surface doesn’t really want the dusty and dry pastel to sully it. But with the encouragement of just a little heat and the softest of pastels it can be convinced. An extension of the intimacy of my … Continue reading
Digital image by Steve Hunter
Sprite has been selected for the Carriage Barn Art Center’s 2011 Photo show judged by Susan G. Hammond. February 6th 2011 through March 6th. An image composed from the fragile little bits that happen when I’m working on my encaustic … Continue reading
Encaustic painting No.113, Detail
This work has taken a turn toward landscape, or is it sea or space, still in a mythic time and place. I’ve started shaping the canvas to emphasize an artificial perspective. This is a case of a circular development, with … Continue reading
Detritus assemblage images by Steve Hunter
Point-of-view is everything. Three views of an assemblage (now destroyed) created from the detritus of my painting process. The photos reveal what was not planned or seen as I fitted it all together. Like reading tea leaves, figures and animals … Continue reading
Encaustic painting by Steve Hunter
What defines this series for me is that the viewer is given an open ended image rich with possible interpretations, and more than a few bits of stuff that might look like emerging creatures or some cosmological event. This creates … Continue reading
Collage using a photo by my father, of me, my sister, and Checkers
Here are a few my early encaustics experimenting with different techniques and subjects. The photo in the collage was taken by my father – it’s me, my sister, and the cat Checkers.
© 2011 Steve Hunter. All rights reserved.
…but I did. A work in progress, as yet untitled (No.151), 2.5 by 8 inches, crop tentative, encaustic on canvas to be mounted on board.
© 2011 Steve Hunter. All rights reserved.
Up for a surprise at the opening? The curator asked for a little more time to decide which of these works to hang in the member’s show. Join me and find out Sunday, September 19th from 4 to 6 p.m. … Continue reading
