Buddy Bunting is a painter who lives in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Berlin, Maryland, and grew up on the lower eastern shore of the Delmarva Peninsula where his family ran a wholesale nursery. He studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, Maryland), the San Fransisco Art Institute, and Boston University School of Visual Art. Upon leaving art school, he spent six years in the National Park Service working in the roads and trails division as a maintenance ranger and park service fire fighter. He spent the following four years at work on fishing vessels as a field technician and scientific illustrator for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. After moving to Seattle in 1997, he began a group of landscape paintings of prisons, visiting the facilities themselves and the communities near them throughout the American west.  Starting as a travelogue of small field sketches, these works grew in size over the next decade to 30 foot long panoramas using ink on rolls of watercolor paper. He continues to paint these landscapes today, though on a more intimate scale, working with oil paint on paper, canvas, and wood. Buddy Buntings work has been shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, PS122 in New York, and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.