Nina Hunter is a contemporary painter based in Saltaire, Yorkshire and the founder of Saltaire Art School.

Nina’s paintings offer a reimagining of the feminine. Each figure is an embodiment of energy, an avatar of soft power, rooted in myth.

While visually informed by historical portraiture, these presiding presences seek to evoke the essence of feminine energy as a restorative, balancing force in a world still shaped by patriarchal structures. By dissolving the boundary between material and metaphysical, Nina creates spaces in which the viewer may encounter their own inner icon, a higher self shaped by presence and intuition.

Each time I stand before a canvas, I feel myself soften. Painting has become a ritual of healing - a quiet meditation where I align myself with something greater and wrap myself in gratitude for the simple gift of being here, now.

Choosing to paint full-time transformed not only my life, but the way I express what is true for me. Though my work has always circled the feminine, I now feel I am arriving at its very core. Each painting feels like an avatar of soft power.
Tender. Unbreakable.
The canvas becomes both my armour and my altar, a place where I witness my own becoming. Where the thoughts I think and the words I speak slowly shape who I am. …and there's such sweetness in realising that, despite the sacrifice and the suffering, we have always been the source of our own strength.

Illustration & Typography

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