Sunday painter

American  

noun

Fine Arts.

1. a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.

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Sunday painter British  

noun

1. a person who paints pictures as a hobby

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Example Sentences

“Academics have always looked on him as a Sunday painter, but there’s always been a following for him, especially in America,” said Alan Hobart, director of the London-based Pyms Gallery, who mentioned an exhibition devoted to Churchill’s paintings held at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1958.

From New York Times

Are there moments when you ask yourself whether Ms. Gallace’s unpretentious landscapes really differ that much from the daubings of a Sunday painter?

From New York Times

“I frankly was not expecting anything — a Sunday painter at best, or a kind of primitive artist that was not particularly my forte or my taste even,” Mr. Fischl said.

From New York Times

“What I saw was the real thing. This was an artist who was very able to communicate very authentic emotion, has a very deft expressionistic hand. He has this confident, intuitive sense of what is enough to capture the expression. Those qualities are not the qualities of a Sunday painter, they are the qualities of a real artist.”

From New York Times

Other colorful gouaches Dubuffet painted before the Liberation — of a jazz club, a Paris street scene or cyclists in the countryside — don’t rise to the weird standard of his métro paintings, and their simplified, obdurate forms may put you more in mind of a Sunday painter than a man contesting hierarchies of style.

From New York Times