Bob Hunter is a Plein-Air Artist, who can be found painting most days on and around the southern Delaware seashore. He primarily works with oil paints, but is equally comfortable working with other mediums such as watercolors, pastels, and graphite pencils. The subject of his work varies widely from coastal landscapes, boats, farmland, fields, valleys, rivers, and figurative compositions. He is motivated by the visual experience, it is paramount; it’s totally engaging – a singularity of purpose. The subject and circumstance of the visual experience i.e.: light, colors, and time constraints typically dictate which medium is used. For example, if drawing a figure (or whatever subject), it’s the light on and around a person or group that initially captures his attention. The light becomes an aesthetic medium, element, a fabric from which we weave the tapestry of our visual lives. “But it’s the seeing thing that most interests me – the totality of the visual experience are exciting things to watch and see. From that moment on – seeing the shapes, form, and color interaction that manifest the artwork. Should the light change (clouds come in or dissipate) or an individual get up and leaves – well then the work if finished. My work is a celebration of life. It is a sincere attempt convey something unpretentious about what I see and experience… Plein-Air landscape painting speaks directly to where I AM. The paintings I create, quite simply depict a captured moment in time; an attempt to be here now, it’s a sort of a Zen thing.  I’m an observer… So, the process of selecting a subject to draw or paint is largely determined by chance circumstance. When the light is right, and the spirit moves me – I paint.  “Any framework, method, or label you impose on yourself is just as likely to be a limitation as an opening.”