[1] Hunt trained to become a teacher but after a health scare gave up that profession and enrolled at the Slade School of Art in London in 1945, where she was taught by William Coldstream.
Hunt was restricted in the amount of teaching she could undertake but was active in the successful campaign to get the school to admit female students.
[1] Hunt returned to Britain in 1959 and in her art adapted a powerful abstract style, which often seemed to suggest plant forms and growth.
[1] She met many of the most important artists active in the city at that time, most notably Jules Olitski who, like other proponents of Color Field painting, had a great influence on her work.
[2][3] Hunt and Atkins divorced after her return from New York and she eventually began a relationship with the artist Alistair Ewen who remained her partner for the rest of her life.