Charlie Hunter is a nationally recognized painter of the post-pastoral American landscape. His distinctive, low-chroma work — which is heavily reliant on a mastery of values, edges, and composition — utilizes a variety of moderately unorthodox techniques, such as manipulating paint with a window washer’s squeegee or impressing the pattern of paper towels into a painted surface to evoke the halftone screens of lithographic reproduction.

Hunter grew up in rural New England as the son of a small-town printer, and his work examines the pressures of modern culture on small-town and agricultural communities, while simultaneously celebrating “what natures does to what man creates.” Initially a graphic designer of tour posters for musicians such as the Jerry Garcia Band, Bob Dylan, The Clash, and REM, Hunter became a music manager and event producer, before turning to painting full-time in the 2000s.

His work has been featured in numerous art and lifestyle publications, is in multiple collections and museums, and was the recent subject of solo show Charlie Hunter: Semaphore at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Vermont, curated by fellow artist Eric Aho. He was the Grand Prize winner at Plein Air Easton 2022 and the First Place winner at the 2022 Door County Plein Air Festival. With painter and designer Larry Moore, Hunter created En Train Air painting train trips, a concept they hope to revive post-pandemic. Hunter’s weekly live stream, Reasonably Fine Art Talks, has a fervent following.

Hunter is represented by Bryan Memorial Gallery (Jeffersonville, VT), William Baczek Fine Arts (Northampton, MA), Trippe Gallery (Easton, MA), Grogan Gallery (Houston, TX), McLarry Fine Art (Santa Fe, NM), Illume Gallery West (Phillipsburg, MT), and Old Main Gallery & Framing (Bozeman, MT).