…each painting has its own journey…

Although I usually go in to the studio with a plan, once started I allow the act of painting to take over. The magic of the brush guided by the spirit within help me to paint the landscape I love. That to me is the excitement of the art process.

Throughout her artistic practice, Georgina Perkins Hunt has spent much of her time in high alpine areas. High ridges, waterfalls and glacial lakes are seen from the vantage point of an artist who has been there, scrambling, climbing and taking in the vast vistas from the mountain tops.

With her characteristic consideration in light and chiaroscuro, Perkins Hunt offers work manifest with dramatic light and shadow that revel in the turbulence of mountain torrents or the tranquility of glacial lakes. These considerations are concurrent with a plea to look beyond the beauty of the mountains and see other gifts offered. “Nature needs water too,” states Robert Sandford, in his book Restoring the Flow. "As a society we are to understand properly the value of our natural capital". This capital, for Perkins Hunt, involves embracing the grandeur, understanding the ecology of mountain landscapes, recognizing water as one of the five elements important to life, and taking to heart the transformative nature of running water with its ability to uplift the human spirit.

I am only one of many artists who have fallen into the spell of the mountains

Beware, those who enter this area will be forever changed. It is impossible to leave it behind. 

This prairie girl was caught a long time ago when I left the wide-open spaces and entered the land of the mountains. For those who love the mountains, as I do, there is a very strong pull to always return. The mountain doesn’t care if you are present and you must take what it gives you – wind, rain, snow in the summer, and beautiful sunshine.  Truly to be in the mountains you must embrace it all. 

The glaciers, the mountain lakes and streams, waterfalls, and treasured glimpses of wildlife, forever imprints on your soul. 

I try to show some of the splendor that I have been able to experience in my visits: the colour of mountain waters, shadows cast by mountains, tiny streaks of light, the joy of mountain peaks emerging from clouds.   All of this the mountains gift to us. 

Nature is a powerful gift!  We should never assume such gifts, instead we must work to preserve. 

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