WILLIAM ZIMMER GALLERY / Artist Information / Anne Hunter Hamilton
| Anne Hunter Hamilton / Painter |
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Anne Hunter Hamilton has been in love with nature since she was a child. Camping, hiking the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and sailing in San Francisco Say are vehicles for her appreciation of natural beauty. She wants to communicate this love of the landscape through her art. Anne admits that her work is primarily about "gratitude for the beauty of landscape." The landscape, Anne believes, is where she "sees God." Perhaps it is this reverence, this spirited emotion, and individual vision, that makes Anne Hunter Hamilton's work "sentimental, deep, and important" while conveying a "sense of playfulness." |
| Surprisingly, Anne Hunter Hamilton's career as an artist didn't blossom until age 42, and she did not begin painting until she was well into her forties. She studied interior design in a small inner city community college in Oakland until she was persuaded to take art courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Anne is a great admirer of the work of Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn, and finds these two artists particularly inspirational in the evolution of her own work. Rothko's exhibition of 1978-9 in Houston greatly influenced Anne's sense of artistic vision with respect to color. She notes Rothko's use of color bands within the color field (the emotion and meaning of the painting as conveyed through the simplicity add layers of color ) as being particularly inspirational. Anne believes Diebenkorn's "stunning" composition and color field has greatly influenced her own composition and use of color. She strives to achieve a sense of abstraction without being labeled as an abstract painter. During the advent of her artistic career, Anne met regularly with a group of artists to paint still-lifes, florals and watercolors. After a series of watercolor workshops, Anne realized she favored the challenge of watercolor but began to reject the need to plan her work- a necessary preliminary process associated with watercolor. This impetuousness led her use white papier coIIe as a substitution for the planned negative space. As her style became more distinct and advanced, the technique of collage was replaced with application of white acrylic in an effort to translate a similar effect. More recently, she has been adding oil pastels to produce more colorful, complex works of mixed media. Anne has even integrated the written element in her art, using descriptive words around the edges of the painting. She continues to re-define the line between abstraction and a recognizable landscape, while focusing on aesthetically interesting work reflective of the beauty of the landscape and experimenting with smaller works. Anne sees her work progressing in a similar manner. She perceives the necessity to integrate the excitement and color of her smaller works in her larger works. Anne is committed to producing art with a tendency towards the abstract, though she is most confident with a horizon line as a point of reference for her landscapes. She continues to derive inspiration from the beauty of the changing seasons in the Napa Valley, where she lives and creates. |
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