Owen Hunt
Owen Hunt was born in Arkansas and grew up in Hot Springs. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, he then studied art in San Francisco, and in Kyoto, Japan under a Japanese Cultural Studies Program. Currently, he resides most of the year in Japan, where he teaches art at Osaka University of Arts, and returns to the U.S. regularly to exhibit, teach painting workshops and visit friends and family.
His New Orleans jazz series is inspired by the wonderful music as well as its exciting visual quality. His energetic method of painting, with a nod to classical art, evokes the music and spirit of the jazz scene and the heritage of New Orleans music.
In 1988 he was awarded an Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting by the Arkansas Arts Council. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Japan and his artwork is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the British Museum, London, as wells as many other public and private collections.
"Humphry's Solo"
"Jazz Bass"
"Jazz Banjo"
"Laid Back"
"The Clarinetist"