‘The Flower Girl’ Of Bermuda Photography

Bermuda artist Kelly Lynn Hunt has long followed the old dictum that a photograph should be a picture of nature painted by the sun — one of the reasons, perhaps, why the island’s flowers are among her favourite subjects.

Her stunning floral still lifes will soon be featured in “Altered States of Reality: An Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography” at the Agora Gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art district.

The exhibition is scheduled to run from April 19, 2011 through May 10, 2011.

“Ms Hunt’s artistic practice is inspired by the ephemeral, lush and delicate life of flowers,” said an Agora spokesman. “Her sensual still lifes isolate the beauty of her native Bermuda’s flora and fauna with graceful precision. Suggestive and rendered in vivid colour, pattern and texture, her large-scale digital photographs on canvas feature rolling and blooming petals, isolated and enlarged nearly to the point of abstraction.

“Metaphorically, the images suggest discovery, growth, intimacy, interiors, innocence and transcendental states of mind. Could flowers be nature’s most abundant source of instantaneous rapture? Hunt’s oeuvre is a mysterious record of experiential bliss. ‘Stop and smell the roses’, her portraits seem to chide, urging the viewer to move more slowly, to look more closely… to drink in the resplendent, restorative power of nature.

Ms Hunt, born in 1977 in Bermuda,  discovered the world of photography in high school. She hasn’t put the camera down since and the hobby transformed into a passion after the birth of her first child.

After becoming a member of the Bermuda Society of Arts in 2005, she has continued to submit her photographs and pieces of handmade jewelry since then.

Her debut solo show “Alive” featured a collection of plant and flower themed, macro photographs, which were printed on high quality canvas.

Ms Hunt loves looking at life through a lens and enjoys mostly all aspects of photography particularly outdoor, macro and photojournalism.

She considers herself a purist in the realm of photography and happily accepts being referred to as “The Flower Girl”.

Aside from Bermuda,  she has had the pleasure of using her camera to document the life and people of the United States, Canada, Costa Rica and Venezuela. She lives in Bermuda with her husband Donte and her two daughters Annalise and Laylah.

In Bermuda Ms Hunt’s works can be viewed and purchased at The Plaza Cafe in Hamilton’s Walker Arcade.

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