Collection: Hunter, Charlie

Charlie Hunter

Charlie Hunter is a nationally recognized painter of the post-pastoral American landscape. His distinctive, low-chroma work, heavily reliant on a mastery of values, edges and composition, utilizes a variety of moderately unorthodox techniques. 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, curated by fellow artist Eric Aho.

Hunter has solo shows upcoming at McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe and William Baczek Fine Arts Northampton, MA. He is a member of The Rattlesnake Gang, an invitational gathering of nationally-known painters in Terlingua, Texas each February, and will be participating in the 2025 ART IN THE OPEN in Wexford, Ireland. He is, as well, the recipient of a 2025 residency at the Tides Institute in Eastport, Maine.

Growing up in rural Vermont, the son of a small-town printer, Charlie Hunter’s work examines the pressures of modern urban and suburban culture upon small-town and agricultural communities. Initially a graphic designer of tour posters for musicians such as the Jerry Garcia Band, Bob Dylan, and The Clash, Hunter became a music manager and event producer, before turning to painting full time.

In 2022 Hunter scored a trifecta of sorts, winning the Grand Prize at Plein Air Easton, First Place at Door County Plein Air, and Best Body of Work (Artists’ Choice Award) at Smoky Mountains Plein Air. With painter and designer Larry Moore, Hunter created the En Train Air painting train. Hunter’s REASONABLY FINE ART TALK livestream and writing maintain a fervent following.

Despite these achievements, Hunter’s cats remain surprisingly unimpressed, and merely wish he would provide more of “the gud fud.”