Spate Huntermann
Spate Huntermann from London is a self-taught artist with twin interests in Abstract and portrait painting.
Although married with two children; in mid career as an Engineering Manager, he took the unusual step, with family agreement, of pursuing a new career path in Painting.
Seven successful years were spent working as a full time Portrait Artist in Cornwall, producing literally hundreds of portraits .
While continuing to undertake Commissions, he received an honours education degree from the University of Bristol before going on to teach in secondary education for a number of years.
He has now returned to painting full time but the main focus has moved firmly onto Abstract painting.
Portrait commissions have been ongoing throughout, under the name of Bob Hunt .
Feeling that a change of genre (to abstract) needed to be disassociated in some positive way from the previous body of portraiture work; he adopted the pseudonym of Spate Huntermann in 1999 which he now uses in the context of abstract painting.
Spate was President of the United Society of Artists from 2005 to 2008 and was a member of the Dorking Group of Artists until moving from Surrey to Suffolk, when he joined Suffolk Open Studios in 2012.
His work has been displayed at the following venues:
- Gallery 238, Dorking
- U.A. stand at the A&I 2002 Design Exhibition,
- Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh,
- Chichester Open Art Exhibition
- Impact Art
- Sightlines 2002 Arts Exhibition.
- U.A. Open Exhibition, Westminster
- Dorking Group of Artists
- Meniere Gallery, (Chocolate Factory Southwark)
- U.A Open Exhibition at The Morley Gallery.
- U.A. Open Exhibition, at The Cottons Atrium, London Bridge
- Chapter House Exhibition. Gloucester. Cathedral
- Two Solo Exhibitions at Denbies, Dorking
- Chertsey Artists Windsor St Gallery. Solo exhibition
While in Penzance, Cornwall, Spate won a painting award in open competition with other artists working in St Ives and Newlyn. The chosen subject was a portrait of Prince Charles set in a Cornish landscape.
His portrait entry to the UA Exhibition, Westminster in 2003 was voted best painting by visitors.
Spate has conducted a series of painting holidays and led workshops in portraiture; in response to invitation has given critiques to a Art Groups, and has led several Workshops in Abstract Art for the DGA
He has been working as a Full-time Abstract Painter since 1999 producing a substantial body of work composed chiefly of abstract and semi-abstract paintings.
Spate's aspiration is to continue to record an ever changing and abstract visual trilogue between mind, experience and the visual environment.
