Owain Hunt (b.1994) is a British painter, based in the United Kingdom and self-taught. Hunt’s practice is concerned with the experience of time and the ways in which it is understood through human relationships.

Working from direct observation, Hunt paints family, friends and recurring sitters drawn from his own life. Born into a family of ten children, his work is rooted in sustained encounters with people who he is intensely familiar with. Through repeated acts of looking, the paintings become records not only of appearance, but of familiarity, memory and the gradual accumulation of shared experience.

While the work often takes the form of portraiture, its primary concern lies elsewhere. Hunt is interested in the tension between the permanence of a painted image and the instability of lived experience; how perception shifts over time, how relationships alter the act of seeing, and how memory inevitably reshapes what is observed.

Processed through paint and contorted by the fragile nature of recollection, the paintings reflect on presence, absence and the life’s brevity. The figures that inhabit them are not simply subjects, but vehicles through which broader questions of duration, connection and mortality become visible.

Hunt’s work belongs to private collections in The United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Australia and the United States. He has been a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters (CBPP) since 2019 and became the youngest member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) on election in 2026.