Courtney Hunt is an impressionist artist hailing from the dreamy, slow-moving, marshy lowcountry of South Carolina. While Courtney has been privileged to call some fantastic artists her mentors, she is primarily self-taught. She is inspired by the spiritual relationships between [Wo]Man and the Universe, as well as the interconnectedness of all creatures and things of this planet. 

“I feel like my subject matter changes a lot. Too much, too soon, too quickly. I get bored. But to me, the message is always (usually) the same. No matter the subject, I feel like I’m always painting lightness. Like, trying to countervail the burden of being alive—to lighten the load of being human.” 

Courtney prefers working primarily with a palette knife, alla prima (wet on wet).

Courtney collects her references while hiking—sometimes creating plein air studies, but primarily sketching notes and taking photographs. She then returns to her studio, where she uses her intuition and imagination to craft and combine unique color choices to enliven and bring vitality to her subjects.

She makes bold color choices and adeptly takes notice of the minute shifts in value.

More than anything Courtney hopes that her art presses her viewers to think, feel, and question—to draw closer to earth, to realize the life-expanding quality of respecting our interconnectedness, to pursue a greater depth in their own perceptions, to pay attention to life itself.

“Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is, What did I really see this day?”

| John O’Donohue

You can contact Courtney through her website https://www.courtneyhuntpaints.com/ or by email at courtneyhuntfineart@gmail.com

Her work can also be viewed at her studio in Atelier Off Bay in historic downtown Beaufort, SC.