I am an artist currently exploring a variety of mediums including painting in oil and acrylic, wire frame sculpture, handmade paper and vintage analog photography.
In recent years I have found deep inspiration in various Japanese aesthetics in particular Wabi Sabi where everything is connected with the natural world and is incomplete, imperfect, or impermanent.
Western culture often summarises Wabi Sabi as seeing the beauty in age and decay however the true philosophy goes mush deeper with its roots in Zen Buddhism, it’s an understanding and acceptance of the natural flow of life being less about what we see and more about how we see.
Wabi : Seeing the beauty in simplicity, a spiritual richness & serenity in simple living detached from the material world.
Sabi : Accepting the passage of time that all things grow and decay and how the aging process alters the visual nature of things.
A Wabi heart recognises Sabi beauty
Working from my wee bothy studio in a quite corner of Highland Perthshire exploring personal creative inspirations whilst still offering creative photography workshops using vintage analog processes from film to the wet plate collodion and alternative printing processes.
website: www.davehunt.co
email: dave@wildgrass.co.uk
instagram: davehunt.studio
