Hubert Shuptrine works in watercolor with a beautiful sense of the sheer, living consequentiality of his subject and with a skill that makes every picture an event to be reckoned with. He is a Beholder. He is able to enter into objects and people and places with the sense of these things entering into him.
—James Dickey, Jericho: The South Beheld

He didn't just paint what he saw, but what he saw within...and what a difference! His words could form a painting—his paintings could speak the words. He was more than an artist, more than a chronicler of the dying South—he was a minister to us all, through his art. We need only to study one of his paintings or turn the pages of his books to feel his religious experience.
— Alan Shuptrine