Alexandra Hunter

Bio

Visual artist Alexandra Hunter began painting under the trained eye of artist and teacher Rita Edwards and soon moved into her own hands-on exploratory style in her home studio. Her work has been shown at various exhibitions in Victoria, BC, and is in private and corporate collections in Canada and the UK.

Alexandra is currently being represented by Victoria Emerging Art Gallery (www.victoriaemergingart.com).

 

Artist Statement

Starting with a mental snapshot of the completed painting, I work backwards, intuitively building up layer and texture, colour and shape, until reaching the original vision in my mind. I know the end result in my head—composition, palette, feel—the rest is just deciding on the steps.

 

A process often fast and furious, full of joy and entirely enthusiastic, my biggest pause is whether to throw, drip, scrape or blot the paint. With brush, palette knife, pen, squeezy bottle, chopstick or fingers? My textured, poetry-infused pieces glow with iridescent metals, copper and gold leaf, gloss gel.

 

Using the title for inspiration, I like to write a companion poem to complete the painting, sometimes as sparse as a haiku, other times a longer study of a theme. Scripture and poetry, mine or others’, often serves as the basis for much of my imagery and language. My current fascination is with mixed-media collage, incorporating text, found objects and ink as a foundation for acrylic glazes, pours and washes.