Sarah Lynne Hunter is a multi-disciplinary visual artist with over 20 years of experience in creative pursuits and is driven by a deeply innate desire to CREATE. She has a degree in Apparel Design and Fine Art from Seattle Pacific University, and her work revolves around a studio practice of creating figuratively expressionistic oil and acrylic paintings, as well as a public practice of weaving art into her community through murals and installations.
Her primary medium is oil painting, but she also has experience working in acrylic, chalk pastel, colored pencil, charcoal, graphite, alcohol inks, conte crayon, watercolor, metal and fiber arts, and as a muralist. Her art has been exhibited in many local and regional galleries, and she has fulfilled artwork commissions and completed murals for both public and private clients. She is based in Vancouver, WA where she lives with her husband, three children, two cats, and teaches art classes on a part-time basis.
She believes in the power of art to bring diverse groups together, unite communities, and its ability to empower and inspire. At its best, public art is a symbiotic dialogue between an artist’s creativity and a community’s spirit. In her mural work she seeks to be a visual storyteller; balancing whimsy and bold color with realism and recognizable motifs so viewers feel both inspired and included.
As counterpart to her public work, her studio work explores themes of femininity and mental health through a figurative lens with elements of surrealism and modern expressionism, and she often includes personal imagery and narratives within her work. She is inspired by trying to capture what words alone cannot– things that beg to be expressed but cannot be easily parsed. She tries to capture emotions and experiences with color, composition, and blurring the lines between reality and our inner worlds and imaginings. She believes that personal expression through art can be a very meaningful and healing form of therapy and that putting imagery to some of the mental health struggles that many people face offers a form of collective healing.
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