biography

Hunter Wild was a video game designer and entrepreneur in Houston, Texas, before receiving his degree in environmental ethics in 2008. After, he began to draw and paint prolifically, largely focusing on watercolor on plastic, with little formal art education. Within the first few months of epic studio sessions, often consisting of 90 hour weeks and the occasional sleepless, art-filled nights into days, he had a number of group shows displaying his abstract watercolor on polypropylene work. Still an autodidact, Hunter Wild previously anchored himself as an experimental watercolorist with a penchant for colorful, existential abstraction but shifted more toward subtracted figuratism. From 2012 onward, his creative fixation has been on abstract mountainscapes conceptually inspired by Shan Shui, or traditional Chinese landscape painting, for both its beauty and an embodiment of psychological/mental/emotional landscapes as wild environments. As Pierre Soulages said, “It is what I do that teaches me what I am looking for.”

 

Hunter Wild currently lives in the mountains of Washington State.

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