Jim Hunter – Private View and Artist Talk with Anne Hitchcock

Please join us for a mid-exhibition opening event and artist talk this Saturday 6th July at 6pm.  Jim Hunter will be in conversation with Anne Hitchcock of the Gillingham Slade Centre, talking about his work and his practice.  Do come along, have a glass of wine and enjoy the work and hearing about how the images of strong watercolour evolve. All Welcome – no need to book!

The exhibition is opens on Saturday 29th June and runs until Sunday 14th July, 11- 4.

Jim says of his work:

I often paint and draw in the landscape. This has been an habitual practice for me throughout my career, from my student days to now when I make extensive use of sketchbooks while walking and drawing in the surrounding landscape of my studio in the Isle of Purbeck.This particular landscape of cliffs and stone quarries is often the subject of my paintings. When working outdoors I like to use watercolour and ink in order to make rapid and immediate observations. Looking at landscapes, and the structures within these landscapes, acts as the prompt for me to develop abstract images which are not descriptive. They are meant to offer an expressive and decorative echo of my experience of that particular location.