Fine Arts

Meet the artist: Jonathan Hunter

Jonathan Hunter on the dynamism of the Phoenix Park and some advice from Francis Bacon

Jonathan Hunter: ‘The Phoenix Park changes every hour. Its motion can be stopped by memory and painting’

English artist Jonathan Hunter is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He completed his MA at the National College of Art and Design Dublin soon after making Dublin his home in 1999.

His work can only be described as vibrant, an exploration of landscapes and people painted captured in vivid and intense colours in a dreamlike haze.

In 2008 he was resident artist at the prestigious Josef and Anni Albers Foundation ...