Spate Huntermann
Spate Huntermann was born in London and due to changing family committments and circumstances, attended a variety of schools across the UK before the age of eleven. Throughout his childhood his interest in drawing and painting grew steadily. In spite of this, in maturity he followed a professional career in Engineering Management involving Product Design and Development.
Married with two children; in mid career and with the full support of his wife, Shirley; he took the unusual step of radically reviewing his options before pursuing a new career path in Painting. Untutored, he spent seven successful years working as a full time Portrait Artist in Cornwall, during which period he produced literally hundreds of portraits and ran private art classes.
He then found time to take an honours education degree at Bristol University, and subsequently teach in secondary education for twelve years, before returning to painting.
Portrait commissions have been ongoing throughout, under the name of Bob Hunt .
Feeling that a change of genre (to abstract) needed to be disassociated in some positive way from the previous body of portraiture work; he adopted the pseudonym of Spate Huntermann in 1999 which he has used in the context of abstract painting ever since.
Spate was elected President of the United Society of Artists in 2005 and is also a member of the Dorking Group of Artists.
His work has been displayed at the following venues:
Gallery 238, Dorking
U.A. stand at the A&I 2002 Design Exhibition,
Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh,
Chichester Open Art Exhibition
Impact Art
Sightlines 2002 Arts Exhibition.
U.A. Open Exhibition, Westminster
Dorking Group of Artists
U.A. Open Exhibition, Cottons Atrium, London Bridge
Chapter House Exhibition. Gloucester. Cathedral
Two Solo Exhibitions at Denbies, Dorking
Chertsey Artists Windsor St Gallery. Solo exhibition
While in Penzance, Cornwall, Spate won a painting award in open competition with other artists working in St Ives and Newlyn. The chosen subject was a portrait of Prince Charles set in a Cornish landscape. His portrait entry to the UA Exhibition, Westminster in 2003 was voted best painting by visitors.
Spate has conducted a series of painting holidays and led workshops in portraiture; in response to invitation has given critiques to a Art Groups, and has led several Workshops in Abstract Art for the DGA
He has been working as a Full-time Abstract Painter since 1999 producing a substantial body of work composed chiefly of abstract and semi-abstract paintings.
Spate's aspiration is to record an ever changing and abstract visual trilogue between mind, experience and everything else.
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