Jack Gunter is a unique and diverse artist, who challenges his audience to broaden their reality and enter into an artistic sphere which could best be described as a cross between folk and realism, science and imagination, left-brained and right-brained.

Gunter’s latest body of work, titled “Secrets of the Mt. Vernon Culture” explores the history of Skagit Valley between 10,000 B.C. and 17,000 B.C., running through the course of its history in the “summer” sandwiched between the previous two ice ages. Through a series of urns with a diversity of surface treatments, placed in sociological groupings, he takes the viewer through an imaginative and satirical world of historical speculation.

Gunter works in two distinct styles. One has a vibrant dot matrix representational surface, which has ties to photorealism and early impressionism. The other uses words and exaggerated forms to make satirical narratives. With both styles he uses the medium of egg tempera.

Gunter owns a gallery located on south Camano Island (where he also lives) called Jack Gunter Art & Design / History of the World, Part IV, which produces a year-round program of provocative exhibitions. Gunter’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and as far away as Russia, and has received numerous awards.