Jonathan S Hooper
Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Film
Extract from: LIFE AT THE EDGE [Silence and Storm]
by
Zorn Wilkes ( New York; spring 2012)
"Hooper is a Cornish painter, not just in origin and subject matter but also in tradition. This tradition is deeply rooted in the St Ives group of artists from the immediate post-war period…….Hooper is concerned with the mechanics that create his landscape; the forces that contribute both directly and more obliquely to his experience of that landscape. In this sense Hooper’s are process paintings: of process and about process…. … these are not narrative or history paintings; they have no particularised story to tell, they are not prescriptive. Instead these paintings convey the idea that landscape is something to be in, to be experienced, and not simply to be observed...
These are Edgescapes."
Current Projects:
9 works
at
Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
Dublin and Belfast Galleries
[www.gormleys.ie]
Italy 2024
“Sound and Vision” Collaboration with Cellist and Composer Riccardo Pes
[ details to follow]
Further work at:
The Nine British Art
9 BURY STREET ST JAMES’S LONDON SW1Y 6AB
020 7930 9293
www.theninebritishart.co.uk
In Progress: “Thirty-Six Views
of
Newland Island”
Paintings, Polaroids, Soundscape*, Film….
(* featured on BBC Radio 6 Music “Ambient Focus”)
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