Paul Hunter was born in Paris to Canadian parents and raised in Quebec City. He earned his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal before relocating to New York City, where he continues to live and work from his studio in Harlem.Hunter’s practice is grounded in an ongoing exploration of luminosity, both as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphysical condition. Working across painting, sculpture, and drawing, his work investigates light as a carrier of memory, perception, and transcendence. Central to his oeuvre are imagined landscapes that exist between memory and invention. These compositions often focus on the liminal space at the horizon, where sky meets land or water, and where light is simultaneously reflected, refracted, and diffused. Rather than depicting specific locations, Hunter constructs atmospheric environments that evoke the fleeting, ephemeral nature of light and the passage of time. His process is deeply tied to material and surface. By working on reflective grounds such as gold leaf, copper, and aluminum, and building up layers of translucent and transparent acrylic, Hunter activates the surface of the work itself. Light is not only represented but embedded, emerging from within the piece and shifting with the viewer’s movement and perspective.Within this practice, distinct series expand his investigation of light and mark-making. In the Libretto series, Hunter creates highly abstract compositions composed of layered, etched lines drawn through wet transparent paint. These linear rhythms allow the radiant glow of underlying metal leaf to surface, producing a sense of calm while evoking the structure of a musical score, merging visual language with the cadence of reading and writing. The Confinement Gardens series extends this visual language into a more organic register, introducing imagined floral and leaf forms that emerge from the earlier nonfigurative compositions. Rendered on aluminum leaf surfaces, these works retain the etched linearity of Libretto while emphasizing the generative energy of nature, as light reflects through the layered surfaces and animated marks.