Sarah Hunter

Sarah Hunter, a UK-born artist with a BA Hons in Graphic Design, worked in design and illustration for over 20 years before turning to encaustic painting. Now based in Canada, her work explores the physicality of wax—its power to reveal and conceal—through a process of layering, reduction, and abstraction. Her paintings evoke the essence of the Ontario landscape, distilled through a disciplined, material-driven practice.After graduating with a BA Hons degree in Graphic Design from Kingston Upon Hull School of Art and Design in the UK Sarah proceeded to make a successful career as a graphic designer and illustrator for over twenty years.

Since moving to Canada 2003 she has been pursuing her art and for the past five years her passion for encaustic painting.

Painting for Sarah is a journey of discovery, embracing the mystery and accident of encaustic. The process of eliminating and simplifying, loving the physical properties of the encaustic medium with it power to reveal or conceal results in a painting which has evolved to capture the essence of the Ontario landscape, her continual inspiration.