Sue Hunt is known as a painter and printmaker, and has exhibited her work widely both in the UK and abroad.
Her interest in drawing combined with a strong abstract identity in terms of composition, form the basis of her work. Subject matter is revealed by a real connection with the materials themselves, the paint, the ink or drawing materials, this and an interest in the quiet energy of botanical forms or still life motifs has underpinned her work of late.
Over the last two years her work has been shown in Hangzhou in China and Australia as part of the international touring exhibition of Open Books, an exhibition of traditional folding books, originating at the National Library of Wales.
Sue has also been collaborating with the charity ‘Mothers for Africa’ where she has been working on community based public art and health projects in Zambia, both in a hospital and rural village environment.
Sue teaches part-time in Cardiff School of Art and Design where she is a .5 Senior Lecturer.
Recent research includes an exploration of silverpoint drawing and being given access to examine the silverpoint renaissance drawings held in the Queens collection at Windsor Castle.
My interest is in a rigour of drawing combined with a strong abstract identity in terms of composition: this forms the basis of my work. Subject matter is revealed by a real connection with the materials themselves, the paint, the ink or drawing materials; this, and an interest in the quiet energy of botanical forms and motifs, has underpinned my work of late. I have recently started to explore, in a very new way, how film can be a tool for me.
My work is based on botanically inspired form. Through this focus I allow the media of what I am using, be it paint, drawing, etching, solar plate etching or, of late, my experiments with film, to play an equal part.
I don’t endeavour to imitate nature but to make work inspired by it, and through this, to communicate something of the spirit of life force coming into being.
The work is about life, birth, growth, development and fading towards extinction, which we share, as parallel eco residents, with the plant world.
Life can be brief, forceful, transient, fragile and diverse. These elements I recognize as becoming fundamental to my work, and it is the magnificence of this quiet reflected poignancy that I want to communicate.