Georgina Hunt

Georgina Hunt (15 June 1922 – 16 April 2012) was an English abstract painter and artist.

Biography Hunt was born in Reading, Berkshire, one of seven children to a local builder. She attended a local convent school where, among other achievements, she won a prize in the annual Royal Drawing Society exhibition. Hunt trained to become a teacher but after a health scare gave up that profession and enrolled at the Slade School of Art in London in 1945, where she was taught by William Coldstream. Before leaving the Slade in 1950, Hunt met and married a fellow student, Peter Atkins. Atkins was a sculpture student who became an assistant in Henry Moore's studio in Hertfordshire. A large exhibition of these works was held at the Camden Arts Centre in 1982. Other solo exhibitions took place at the Barbican Centre in 1998 and at Winchester Cathedral in 1999. In 1998, Hunt was recognized at the Osaka Triennale when she was awarded the Osaka 21st Century Association Prize. Shortly after her death in 2012, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Cello Factory gallery in London.