About June
June has been taking photographs for over forty years. Over the past eighteen years she has recorded the details of her small East Vancouver garden, observing how it changes from one season to the next, or even from one moment to the next. Constant variety is provided by ever-changing light, the rain, the way the plants present themselves and, perhaps most importantly, her own relationship to them at any given time. Her latest work combines her botanical subjects with layers of rust, peeling paint, cracked concrete, ancient wallpaper or unraveling lace. While the garden is a place of constant change and fleeting moments of beauty, it is also an archive of personal and family history. This latest series of work aims to capture this sense of the garden as a place where time stands still.
June was born in the industrial north of England, growing up in a flat right under the Tyne Bridge (which is immortalized on the Newcastle Brown Ale label). After earning a degree in English Literature, specializing in Anglo Saxon poetry, she moved to Canada. There she hand-built a cabin in BC's Cariboo country and worked for almost a decade as a tree-planter and camp cook. In the early eighties she moved to Vancouver, earning a diploma in media studies, taking fine art courses and working in graphic design, photography and communications. June is now a full-time working artist.
Her timeless images are available printed on canvas, photo paper, plexi-glass, aluminum, glass, marble, wooden panels and even incorporated into silver and resin jewellery. Scale ranges from several feet across to 6mm (her smallest earrings). Her work can be seen regularly at Granville Island Market where she is a juried craftsperson.
June's images have appeared in several TV shows and are owned by private individuals in Canada, the US and Europe and by many British Columbia companies and corporations, including the Hyatt Hotel, ICBC and the River Rock Casino. June has enjoyed press coverage on CBC radio and television, and in print publications including: Wish magazine, House and Home, Style at Home, Western Living, The Vancouver Sun and Georgia Straight.
June Hunter Images in the press.