Ian Hunter (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIan Hunter (artist)
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1939
Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Mar-2017
Profession: painter
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Ian Hunter (artist)
- Ian Hunter (27 April 1939 – 1 March 2017) was a British artist and Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art (now Central Saint Martins) in London.Hunter was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, but his family moved to Scarborough.
- He studied at the Scarborough School of Art.
- His friend Ian Parkinson inspired him to be an artist and they both studied at the Leicester College of Art and Design.
- He became a lecturer at the Luton School of Art, the Guildford School of Art and the Farnham College of Art.
- He was based for a year at Stout University, Menomonie, Wisconsin, in the United States.
- He then moved to the Falmouth School of Art and the Cheltenham School of Art, where he became the Head of Fine Art.
- In the 1980s, he became the Dean of Art at Central St Martins.
- He was appointed as a full professor, but took early retirement.
- Later he was Head of Fine Art at the Winchester College of Art, before moving to southern Spain in 1999 where he joined the Andalucian International Artists group and became a member of the Asociacion Espanola de Pintores y Escultures. Hunter mainly painted in oils, typically including human figures, but also produced sculptures using wood and canvas.
- At the age of 73, he started to paint using an iPad, influenced by David Hockney.
- At the end of his life, he moved to Scotland. He exhibited widely, including at the Barbican Centre, Hayward Gallery, and Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- He held a major solo exhibition in 1983 at Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall.Ian Hunter met his first wife Maureen Blowman in Scarborough and they married in 1960.
- He married his second wife Susie Lee in 1975.
Read more at Wikipedia