Kelly Hunt

Kelly Hunt’s artistic practice is inspired by the ephemeral, lush and delicate life of flowers. Her sensual still lifes isolate the beauty of her native Bermuda’s flora and fauna with graceful precision. Suggestive and rendered in vivid color, pattern and texture, her large-scale digital photographs on canvas feature rolling and blooming petals, isolated and enlarged nearly to the point of abstraction. Metaphorically, the images suggest discovery, growth, intimacy, interiors, innocence and transcendental states of mind. Could flowers be nature’s most abundant source of instantaneous rapture? Hunt’s oeuvre is a mysterious record of experiential bliss. “Stop and smell the roses,” her portraits seem to chide, urging the viewer to move more slowly, to look more closely… to drink in the resplendent, restorative power of nature.

Kelly Hunt, born in 1977 in Bermuda, attended the University of South Carolina where she studied Spanish and Performing Arts. She currently lives and works in Bermuda.