Charlie Hunter

"Charlie Hunter has the uncanny ability to seize upon the most ordinary things, and transform them with his brush into bewitching jewels of design and artistic perception." - Richard Schmid 

Using water-mixable oils and a tonalist technique, Hunter's work is simultaneously journalistic and subjective. He works in Bellows Falls, VT, 20 miles from where he grew up on the highland farm of his great-great-great grandfather.  

Charlie Hunter is a nationally recognized painter of the post-pastoral American landscape. His distinctive, low-chroma work, exists, as he says, "halfway between a photograph and a memory." 

Heavily reliant on a mastery of values, edges and composition, utilizing a variety of moderately unorthodox techniques; manipulating paint with a window washer's squeegee or impressing the pattern of paper towels into a painted surface to evoke halftone screens of lithographic reproduction, Hunter's work examines the pressures of modern urban and suburban culture upon small-town and agricultural communities, simultaneously celebrating "what natures does to what man creates."  

Initially a graphic designer of tour posters for musicians such as the Jerry Garcia Band, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Eurythmics and REM, Hunter became a music manager and event producer, before turning to painting full time in the 2000's,  

His work has been featured in numerous art and lifestyle publications, is in multiple collections and museums, and was the recent subject of a one-man show, SEMAPHORE, at the Brattleboro (VT) Museum, curated by fellow artist Eric Aho. With painter and designer Larry Moore, Hunter created the En Train Air painting train, a concept they hope to revive post-pandemic. Hunter's weekly live stream, REASONABLY FINE ART TALKS, has a fervent following.