Cathy Hunt Contemporary Fine Art

SOFT BLUE

Inspired by a rock pool at the base of Goldstream Falls on Vancouver Island, Canada. Layers of acrylic gel and glazing create an encaustic-like surface that soothes and invites the eye to linger and explore.

Goldstream Soft Blue 1

24 x 24" acrylic on canvas

Goldstream Soft Blue 2

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Goldstream Soft Blue 3

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Goldstream Soft Blue 4

24x24" acrylic on canvas

SOFT ROCKS

A rock pool at the foot of Goldstream Falls on Vancouver Island provided the inspiration for these acrylic paintings. They incorporate layers of heavy gel and glazing that create an encaustic-like surface.

Soft Rocks 1

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Soft Rocks 2

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Soft Rocks 3

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Soft Rocks 4

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Pale Blue Soft Rocks

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Pale Green Soft Rocks

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Purple Edge

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Soft rocks & wood

12x12" Acrylic on canvas

Textured rocks in water

8x12" Acrylic on Birch panel

Shimmer 1

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Shimmer 2

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Rock Pool Edge

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Ebb and Flow

36x48" acrylic on canvas

SOFT GREEN

Layers of acrylic gel and glazing create an encaustic-like surface that invites the eye to linger and explore. Inspired by a rock pool at the base of Goldstream Falls on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Goldstream Soft Green 1

24x24" Acrylic on deep canvas

Goldstream Soft Green 2

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Goldstream Soft Green 3

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Goldstream Soft Green 4

24x24" acrylic on canvas

MEDICINE RIBBONS

Ribbons tangle, loop, knot and intertwine Metaphors for entanglement, their looseness suggests the opportunity we have to disentangle and embrace flow, flexibility and ultimately, freedom.

New Threads 1

24x24" acrylic on canvas

New Threads 2

24x24" acrylic on canvas

Medicine Ribbons

6, 24x36" acrylic and pastel on canvas

Collective Interaction

48x48" acrylic on canvas hanging

Selected to travel Ontario celebrating Visual Art Ontario's 30th Anniversary

Knot 1 but 2

3, 24x36" acrylic, chalk pastel on canvas

GOOD BONES

An honouring of Seal Bones discovered on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. Icons of mortality, they reference the potential for transformation. In a practical sense, they are the traditional harvest of the Inuit of Nunavut that could hold the key to economic renewal in the North. Metaphorically, they reference the path we all walk as we find our way home.

A Journey...Thusfar

12 x 12" Seal bone, hand-stitching, wool roving, hand made felt on repurposed cotton, acrylic on canvas

The Journey Continues

8x8” Seal bone, hand-painted, stitched & quilted on repurposed cotton mounted on birch panel

U'mista: Returned

U'mista Cultural Centre Collection, Alert Bay, British Columbia

Inspired by time spent with carved masks and coppers in the U’mista Cultural Centre. A cedar room was made to house them upon their repatriation after being confiscated from a potlatch gathering in 1921 by the Canadian government. Canada practiced cultural genocide in various ways including making potlatch gatherings and spiritual practices illegal. https://www.umista.ca/

12x12" Seal bone, Hand stitching, jute on re-purposed fabric, Acrylic on canvas

Seal bone Kantha 1

12 x 12" Seal bone, Hand stitching, wool roving on re-purposed fabric, Acrylic on canvas

Seal bone Kantha 2

12 x 12" Seal bone, Hand stitching, wool roving on re-purposed fabric, Acrylic on canvas

Seal bone Kantha 3

12 x 12" Seal bone, hand stitching/painting on re-purposed fabric, Acrylic on canvas

Seal bone Kantha 4

12x12" Seal bone, hand stitching/painting on re-purposed fabric, Acrylic on canvas

Seal Lullaby Installation

16x16 Acrylic painting on Birch Board, Seal Bones

Equanimity

48x48" Acrylic on canvas

Earth and Sky In A Bag of Bones

48x48" Acrylic on canvas

Beached Bones

48x48" Acrylic on canvas

Dancing Bones

24x36" acrylic on canvas

Two to One

24x48" acrylic on canvas

GRASSJazz

Waves of line and texture are lifted out of layers of water-based pigment. The emerging colour and rhythm create a meditative movement. Inspired by swaying dune grass along the North Atlantic shore of Newfoundland. Acrylic, watercolour on paper.

GRASSJazz Tumbling

8, 6x8" acrylic/watercolour on paper

GRASSJazz Vertical

9, 6x8" acrylic/ watercolour on paper

GRASSJazz Tapestry

8, 6x8" acrylic/watercolour on paper

GRASSJazz Rhiannon's Knot

48x48", 4 piece modular, Watercolour & acrylic on paper

JUXTAPOSITION

Gestural voices reference the aural in a kind of visual chant; juxtaposition creates relationship, movement, and story.

Encircled

9, 12x12" acrylic on canvas

Mosaic

12, 12x12" acrylic on canvas

River Relief

3, 12x12" acrylic, pine needles on canvas

Drop Frame

8, 12x12" acrylic, pine needles on canvas

Fragmented

4, 12x12" acrylic on birch board

Out From the Dark

2, 16x16" acrylic on canvas

EMBODIED

We are inextricably linked with the Earth. It grounds us and offers refuge, healing and energy. These works are meditations on interconnection.

Finding Balance

24x36" Acrylic on canvas

Taking Refuge

24x36" Acrylic on canvas

The Power of the Night

24x36" acrylic on canvas

Inspired by Night Blooming Cereus

Medicine Wind

24x30" Acrylic on canvas

What We Hold On To

3, 24x60", Acrylic on canvas

Connection Across Time

24x36", Watercolour on 150lb cold press paper; Inspired by BW photo circa 1910 of Blackfoot Elder, Head of Women's Medicine Society

Tree Spirit

8x14" watercolour on cold press paper

Three Part Ecstacy

6 panels, 36x72", Watercolour, acrylic on 300 lb cold press paper

Not Them; Us

Diptych in four parts, 24x72"; Watercolour, acrylic on 150lb cold press paper

Want

24x36" watercolour on paper

LEAVING A MARK

Inspired by ancient imagery from the caves at Lascaux and Altamira. Water-worn bricks found washed up on the shore of Lake Ontario were hand-rubbed with watercolour stick onto handmade Thai paper and play ensued.

After Lascaux 1

6x6 watercolour on handmade Thai paper

Tumbled Brick 2

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

Tumbled Brick 2

6x6" watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 4

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

SOL

After Lascaux 5

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 7

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 6

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 8

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 10

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 9

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

After Lascaux 11

6x6" Watercolour on handmade Thai paper

Remembering 156

26x20', watercolour and tracing paper on handmade Thai paper

TRACES

Layers and textures of worn walls and floors suggest narratives of those who walked before.

Toronto

1911 era home, Sunnyside, Toronto

Toronto

1911 era home, Sunnyside, Toronto

Toronto

1911 era home Sunnyside, Toronto

Alcatraz Federal Penetentiary

Cafeteria floor

Alcatraz Federal Penetentiary

Cafeteria floor

Alcatraz Federal Penetentiary

Cafeteria Floor

Newtown NL, Canada

Kitchen floor

Newtown NL, Canada

Kitchen passage to Living room

Newton NL, Canada

Living room floor

Newtown NL, Canada

Kitchen passageway floor

CONTINUUM

This work explores awareness within the context of the collective unconscious. Awakening, abiding presence, fear, shock, clarity? How one experiences the work is open to reflection and interpretation.