“Soar”, an exhibit of butterfly paintings and hand-painted PrayerSilks, is on exhibit at the Princeton Art Guild this month and in February.
Art Guild Director Melissa Peek has announced Christian artist, Barbie Hunt, has been creating art for more than forty years including pottery, paintings, collage works on paper, assemblage on wood and hand-painted PrayerSilks. Hunt holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture and two Master of Arts degrees in Ceramics and in English Literature. According to Peek, Hunt’s creative journey has included ten years as a production potter when she owned Pennyroyal Pottery. She reportedly served as founding director of the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts for nine years and now owns Barbie Hunt Studio next door to the Main Street Prayer Center and Healing Rooms where she is director along with her husband, Rush. Peek says Hunt’s work in silk has become an online company, PrayerSilks. Her work is currently exhibited at Gather at BLUE 21 at 35 North Main Street and in her studio at 113 East Center Street, both located in Madisonville.
Hunt said in a release “Art making is a creative process that has become for me an experience of prayer. I am not thinking about what to do as much as what I am doing; and in that, it is the spirit connected with Holy Spirit. I paint with music that influences my direction. Worship becomes action in color and line, design, and material. Creating is a process of experiment, challenges, movement, and change; like life, it has beautiful surprises.”
Everyone is invited to attend an artist reception on Sunday, January 15, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Guild House with Sean Mestan providing live music during the event.
