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, altered photographs, found objects and ink as a foundation for acrylic glazes, pours and washes.

Bio
Victoria-based 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 and real estate stagings in Victoria, BC, and is in private and corporate collections in Canada and the UK.

Group Shows
2010 Look Victoria, CACGV, Victoria, BC, Feb 27–Mar 20
2010 Beginnings, Coast Collective Gallery, Colwood, BC, Jan 14–24
*awarded Juror’s Choice Award for “Seedpod”

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Salted with Fire, Con Brio Music Studio, Victoria, BC, Sep 5–Oct 31
2009 Saanich Municipal Hall, Victoria, BC, May 27–Jun 23
2008 Joy Rising, Sea Cider Cidery & Farmhouse, Saanichton, BC, Dec 1–31