Jonathan S Hooper
Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Film
Now is the Future
That the Past couldn’t Predict.
Trust the Uncertain
[Haiku: March 2025]
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 and Recent Projects:
Blanc European Festival 2025
26th January 2025
A collaborative sound and vision installation with composer/cellist Riccardo Pes. 12 paintings from my 2024 “Microtones” Series, film and soundscape performed live by Riccardo Pas and musicians from Spilimbergo Musica.
Location:
The 15th ex-convento di San Francisco, Pordenone, ITALY
Gratifying support for
New Paintings and Sculptures
at
THE BRITISH ART FAIR
Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY
26-29 September 2024
with
The Nine British Art
Works selected for exhibition during the
60th Venice Biennale
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello June 07-June 21
San Marco Art Space June 20-July 04
Further works at:
The Nine British Art
40/41 PALL MALL, LONDON SW1Y 5JG
020 7930 9293
info@theninebritishart.co.uk
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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