2025. Oil pastel on paper. 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
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Hunter places a nude male body close to a flowering tree on a green hillside. The canopy crowds the top of the drawing with thick pink clusters, while the black paper turns the whole scene into night. The figure stands slightly turned, head down, as if pausing to listen. Nothing is spelled out, but the mood is clear: quiet attention, alert stillness.
The skin is built from layered pastel—warm gold and orange pushed through cool blue and violet—so the body feels shaped by the landscape’s light. The marks stay visible and physical, which makes the drawing feel less like a polished image and more like a surface you can read.
The tree functions as shelter and cover. The blossoms are lush, almost too lush, and that excess creates tension with the figure’s calm pose. “Hunter” can be read as literal, metaphorical, or purely psychological: a state of looking, wanting, tracking.
Oil pastel on black paper has strong presence in person—color sits on the surface and shifts as light changes. Frame behind glass, avoid humidity and direct sun.


What holds the piece together is composition: the heavy canopy above, the grounded figure below, and the hillside behind—an arrangement that feels protective and risky at once. It’s a pastoral scene with teeth.” I would add “unless it’s his name.









