While Steve Hunziker’s art career has been, for the most part, graphic art, he has dabbled in all sorts of creative venues including creative writing, song writing, guitar playing, sculpture, video productions, painting, illustration, model ship building, creative carpentry, Baptist-style preaching, Biblical teaching, backpacking and pole vaulting. One could say Steve is a jack of all artistic endeavors, and when it comes to his pictures, they seem to be of interest to almost everyone.
He believes that his spiritual quest has somehow found its way into his images, and that creative ventures that come from the heart, reach the heart. He immerses his soul and spirit into whatever he does, including his artwork. Each one of his images is fashioned thoughtfully and prayerfully. He lets the various design elements of his composition tell him where they belong and how they can best play a fitting part for the betterment of the whole. He believes that if we are all allowed to live the way that we are intended to live, the whole becomes a unique work of art, more beautiful than the sum of its parts. His goal in life is to encourage this unity among variety in his own little sphere of influence, as well as in his creative ventures.
Hunziker does all of his artwork on his iMac. He is inspired by the amazing images that are out there—old masters and new artists, the good, the bad and even the ugly all have something that could be inspiring. He loves to find available picture parts and see how they can work magic together. He uses Photoshop to arrange these “marriages made in Heaven”—a tree here, a sky there, an old wooden boat, or some forgotten part of a an old public domain painting of days gone by.
“There (are) beautiful things out there overlooked by most everyone, and my mission is to give them a new lease on life, a transformation by renewing of their minds, if you will,” Hunziker said. “I find lonely picture parts that speak to my soul. Then I find other images of my own or out there that I can legally invite into my own little creative world. Then I listen to their story, their dreams of becoming a part of something beautiful and inspiring that will be a blessing to souls for many years to come. I may try out hundreds of different players for the final composite. But calling on my half century of designing, graphic art and some tricks of the trade, and also calling on the name of the Lord, a new work of art is sent off to brighten this world a bit.”