Carol Hunt

"My work is inspired by music, Asian art and the changing seasons and colors of our garden. I prefer instrumental music, particularly piano. Debussy and Ravel, but also Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky with their eastern inspired dissonance, are my favorites.

 As in a musical composition, each color represents an instrument. Brushstrokes build upon brushstrokes, adding, subtracting andcombining until the composition makes a musical whole.

 Chinese and Japanese paintings, prints and calligraphy are endlessly inspiring. I love the color and composition of Japanese printsand the bold energy and gestures of Chinese sumi paintings and calligraphy. I find that the graceful bare tree branches of winter are akin to calligraphy.

 This series of etchings, called Permutations & Combinations, is derived from 5 plates, each 16” square. Some of the plates were printed separately, while most were printed in combinations of 2 or more plates, with a different color on each plate or layer. All of the plates were printed by Dan Welden and Andrea Baatz at Hampton Editions.

 The weaving, SMOKESTACKS, was inspired by the Con Ed plant in Queens, with its three striped towers spewing smoke. It is 54”x 17”, woven of wool, cotton and acrylic."