Australian artist Todd Hunter creates expressive, dynamic canvasses which seek to represent the essence rather than the physical matter of things. Described as an ‘alchemist of form’ his work can not be considered in the traditional sense of either figuration or abstraction. Hunter extracts colour, form and sentiment from the world around him and refashions them in his own vocabulary. Hunter is not disinterested in his subjects, whether they be figures or landscapes, he simply bypasses their literal components and presents them anew, expressively and with great energy.
