JR Hulett Landscapes

About

Artist Statement

My work begins with a simple but radical proposition: images can be vessels of power. In a world increasingly mediated by opaque technologies and distant systems, each painting is meant to function as sympathetic, representational magic—a symbolic act of taking some control back. When a viewer chooses to live with one of my pieces, they are engaging an ancient practice: using image, color, and form as a way to reclaim agency from the impersonal machinery of tech and to invite benefit, protection, and alignment into their own life.

This conviction isn’t theoretical for me; it’s rooted in direct experience with realities that sit just beyond our everyday understanding. As a child, I was visited by what I can only describe as extraterrestrial and/or interdimensional entities. As a teenager, I witnessed a silent, black, triangular craft move across the sky in ways that defied ordinary explanation. At other times, I’ve had vivid, intrusive images of satellites and space probes injected into my mind—technological icons arriving like transmissions. My paintings emerge from that entanglement of geometry and landscape, signal and silence, the human nervous system trying to map what it cannot fully name.

All of this is happening alongside a very grounded, painful reality: my wife has cancer. That fact threads through everything I do and has made sustained artistic practice incredibly difficult—emotionally, physically, and financially. Yet it has also stripped away any illusion that art is a luxury; for me, making this work is an act of resilience, love, and devotion in the midst of uncertainty. When someone brings my work into their space, I hope they feel both the cosmic and the personal, and that the art serves as a quiet instrument of empowerment—a way to symbolically rearrange their relationship to technology, to illness, to fear, and to the unknown, and to claim a bit more of their own inner territory in the process.

I will strive to do ‘try-weekly’ updates here (under ‘New Work’ – above). So what are you to do in-between? Please…spend time with loved ones, because life moves too fast : o )

Work Experience:

Burien Community Center

February – April 2025

Showed 15 pieces in public space

Art on the Ave – Tacoma WA

2024-2026

Annual summer street art festival 

Proctor Arts Fest – Tacoma WA

2024-2026

Annual summer street art festival

Various Coffee Shops

Including:

The Coffee House – Lincoln NE

Meadowlark Coffee – Lincoln NE

Sureshot Espresso – Seattle WA

Bedlam Coffee – Seattle WA

Parnassus Cafe – Seattle WA

among others

June 2005-June 2013

Education: University of Washington – BA in Art History (Honors/Dean’s List) – 2013