Pamela Holl Hunt Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1945 -

(b Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 1945) Pamela Holl Hunt studied at Atelier 17, Paris with Stanley William Hayter (1964-65); Académie Julian, Paris, with M. MacAvoy (1965-66); Hornsey College of Art, London, England (1966-68); with Jean Hornak (1968-71); Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (1972-74); art history at the Musée Cinquantenaire, Brussels (1974); Symphonic Composition and Applied Colour Theory, Vancouver Academy of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia with Michael Britton (1999). She immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1952, moved to Ottawa, then moved to Paris, France. She returned to Vancouver in 1975 where she lives today. Working in oil, her earlier work was more abstract, using palette knife. Since 2000 she has commenced on a spiritual and creative search which has emanated in an extensive series of bold, colour-filled tree paintings that evoke images of both Emily Carr and Stanley Cosgrove. She signs her works 'Holl Hunt'. (Credit: Westbridge Fine Art Auction House, Vancouver, Works from the Studio of Canadian Artist Pamela Holl Hunt, May 25, 2009, Lot 1)