Classically Trained Contemporary Artist
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Pamela Holl Hunt creates powerful, intuitive abstracts inspired by the natural world — landscapes, sea, weather, and inner emotions. Using oil and palette knife, her work layers color, movement, and texture for pieces that are both personal and universal.
Explore her latest abstracts, tree series, and more below.
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About Pamela Holl Hunt
“Even before I went to Paris to study in 1964 I was in love with French art. For me the epitome of painting is Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Matisse, and Picasso. Sure there are other loves, but these are the enduring ones. They represent my spiritual search for something beyond the physical.”
Pamela HOLL HUNT was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, in 1945. A classically trained contemporary artist, she received most of her training in Europe during the 1960s and 70s: life drawing at The Académie Julian with M. MacAvoy, etching/printmaking at The Atelier 17 with master printmaker Stanley William Hayter, Hornsey College of Art (London), oil painting at the Beaux Arts (Brussels), and art history at the Musée Cinquantenaire. In 1999 she studied Symphonic Composition and Applied Colour Theory at the Vancouver Academy of Art with Michael Britton.
Working primarily in oil with palette knife, her earlier works were sensitive illuminating abstracts. She later produced large canvas portraits of international celebrities. In 2000, a spiritual and creative search led to an extensive series of bold, colour-filled tree paintings evoking Emily Carr and Stanley Cosgrove. More recently she has returned to powerful, exciting abstracts. She signs as ‘Holl Hunt’ or ‘HH’.
Her paintings are mostly derived from feelings of space, landscape, sea, water, rock, weather—the natural world. She is attracted to certain tones and colours against each other, which evoke a mood that inspires the beginning of a painting, though everything can change once the painting is underway.
“My paintings are mostly derived from feelings of space, landscape, sea, water, rock, weather…the natural world. I am attracted to certain tones and colours against each other. These evoke a mood which inspires the beginning of a painting, but everything can change once the painting is underway.”
Selected Private Collections
- Michael Edmonds, Founder-Edmonds International Ltd, Mexico City
- Luba Goy (Royal Canadian Air Farce actor), Toronto, Ontario
- Dennis Washington (Billionaire), USA
- Barry Sugden, Land Developer, BC
- Robert Horton, Senior Government Official, Bermuda
- Seasons in the Park - Sequoia Company of Restaurants, Vancouver, BC
- Michael Leverock, Leverock Telecommunications Consultant, Bermuda
- Charlotte Jelenski, Costume Designer, Hollywood, USA
- Michael Ross, Total Management Inc., Burnaby, BC
- Majendie Securities, Victoria, BC
- Players Chophouse Restaurant, Vancouver, BC
- D’Anjou Anderson, Art Dealer, Bermuda
- Diane Perkins and Maurice Deutsch, Arizona, USA
Special Commissions
- Wolvertons Securities Ltd
- McKim Advertising
- Sheraton Villa Hotel
- Taiga Forest Industries
- Sunlife Assurance of Canada
- Coles Management Group
- Amvic International Inc.
Memberships & Committees
- Member of Artists for a Better World (November 2008)
- Member of three-panel selection committee for The Karat Public Art Project, Richmond Public Art Commission, Richmond, BC (April 2010)
- Member of selection committee for public art commission in Richmond, BC
Current location: Port Alberni, BC, Canada.
