Art by Laura Hunt

Welcome to my online gallery! Here's a little background behind the art that I create.

I paint the human figure and landscapes. Although they offer different opportunities for creative expression, they both engage me with the way light and shadow express form, emotion and the human experience. I’m drawn to the emotion expressed by the gesture of a hand or the tilt of a head, the long shadows cast by a barren desert mesa or the tough resilience of a scrubby tree. 

Whether I’m painting a landscape or a face, themes of melancholy, introspection, nostalgia, empathy and social issues bind the work together. Although my work has a naturalistic foundation, creating academically perfect work bores me. I prefer an expressive approach that is less about visual accuracy and more about a universal human experience.