Internationally-renowned Angus artist Richard (Dick) Hunter, a former course director at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art whose watercolours hang in major collections across the globe, has died at the age of 78.
Generations of Duncan of Jordanstone students will remember Mr Hunter with respect and affection as the foundation studies course director, he himself having studied drawing and painting there before graduating in 1956, having been awarded both post-graduate and travelling scholarships.
Mr Hunter’s career as a teacher spanned 43 years, in local schools and latterly at Duncan of Jordanstone, and his painting focused on his home town of Arbroath.
Elected to membership of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1969, he exhibited widely with the society and the RSA.
His work is to be found in many private and public collections including the Fleming Collection, London; Dundee’s McManus Gallery, Glasgow Civic Art Collection, the Angus Council Collection, the Hamilton Gallery, Ontario, and the collection of the Duke of Edinburgh.
He married fellow painter Ann Patrick in 1960 and they settled in a small Victorian lodge in Arbroath, which became the focus for many convivial gatherings of local painters and friends.
The lodge was expanded to accommodate their three children, Andrew, Julian and Susannah, who have all followed in their artistic parents’ footsteps.
“Dick will be remembered as a man of many and diverse talents: painter, builder, raconteur, bon viveur and dedicated pater-familias,” said a friend in tribute.
The funeral service will be held at Parkgrove crematorium, Friockheim, on Monday at 11.30am.