Kate Hunt

"I was raised in a town of 900 on the plains of Montana. It is “Big Sky” country. My sensibilities reached to the horizon. Standing on the landscape it appeared as if I was the biggest thing out there. It is this incredibly vast and beautiful landscape that has shaped my art.

I come from a family of lawyers and politicians. My dad sat on the Supreme Court of the State of Montana. I broke the tradition by becoming an artist and marrying a commercial salmon fisherman, who fishes on the Bering Sea in Alaska.

I graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art. I have always made art and for the most part, made a living at it. At times I have had to pick up second jobs.

My sense of my art and that of other people’s art, whether modern or ancient, is deeply embedded. Often, when I run into other artists and ask how they are, or how their work is going, I am baffled that they run off a list of events happening around them. While I suppose I have those lists, too, it seems superficial.

What’s really happening is happening down in the studio with a pencil and a drawing pad, experimenting and exploring ideas and materials or executing the pieces themselves. But then how do you talk about that? If there were words, it would destroy the essence of my personal experience of fooling around with materials and ideas. I’ll leave the words to the critics.

About those lists, I usually have a solo show on the horizon. I have built several commissions, and my work has been included in many collections. I am excited about the work and world around me."

Kate Hunt