Theresa Hunt

Theresa Hunt’s paintings exist in a state of flux, where light and shadow slip between forms and certainty gives way to sensation. Her works appear fluid and mutable, yet are constructed with careful precision, built through layered washes of colour that dissolve traditional boundaries between landscape and atmosphere. Rather than depicting a place, Hunt evokes a state of being, a language of feeling shaped by mist, wind, distant storms and the slow unfolding of light.

Drawing from her time living in Florence, Hunt’s palette has expanded to include subtle purples inspired by the city’s distinctive sunsets, when the last warmth of day recedes into dusk. Blues, greens and creams are garlanded with strokes of white light and deep shadow, suggesting waves, forests, or far-off beacons that resist fixed interpretation. Each painting hovers between the recognizable and the intangible.

For Hunt, wind, tide, earth and sky are not separate entities but interwoven forces. Standing before her work recalls moments of looking out to sea or watching weather move across land, experiences that remind us that even in solitude, we are never truly apart from the world. Her paintings offer a quiet reassurance: we are shaped by the same forces we observe.