Jonathan S Hooper b. 1962
Growing up in 1960s Cornwall, Jonathan S Hooper was surrounded not only by the elemental majesty of this resilient, rocky promontory but also by the creative tradition and legacy that this place provoked. The artist’s exposure to this tradition was far from casual. Through his father, Harry Hooper, a painter himself and a founding member of the Cornish Gliding Club, Peter Lanyon and Alan Davie were directly part of his landscape.
Steeped in this culture, Hooper eschewed the option of a more formal art training, instead choosing to follow a family tradition and study structural engineering at university. A master’s degree at Imperial College London followed, after which he returned to Japan – a country he first experienced as a hitchhiking student – living and working there for three years.
On leaving Japan, Hooper returned to painting and sculpture. An abiding interest in Japanese printing techniques and calligraphy is evident both in the way Hooper’s paintings are built up, and in how gestural, calligraphic marks often interrupt the painting plane.
His paintings seek to convey the experience of being ‘in’ landscape, as opposed to the less active state of looking or observing. Rooted in North Cornwall’s moors and coastal margins, this sense of place functions as a cipher through which to explore metaphysical concepts such as experience, memory, predisposition and imagination. Hooper uses the paintings to understand and reinforce his relationship with landscape; they are complexity maps.
Hooper views landscape as the matrix in which the whole of human experience is lived out. He is conscious, however, that we are losing our fundamental connection to landscape and wayfinding. His work explores the possibility that, through alternative ways of representing landscape, we can reinvigorate these links and rebuild the bridges to the uncultivated spaces.
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Jonathan S HooperEmblance Downs: Autumnsigned, titled and dated 2019 versooil on panel60 x 50 cms (23½ x 19½ ins)£ 6,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperGorse Storm: Treswallock Downssigned, titled and dated 2021 versooil on canvas120 x 150 cms (47 x 59 ins)contact gallery
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Jonathan S HooperGranite Moorsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel100 x 70 cms (39½ x 27½ ins)Contact Gallery
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Jonathan S HooperGrowansigned, titled and dated 2019/20 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)£ 8,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperHawk's Tor Gradientsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)£ 6,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperHeadland No 10signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil, wax and resin on board122 x 61 cms (48 x 24 ins)Contact Gallery
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Jonathan S HooperHeadland No 11signed, titled and dated 2021 versooil, wax and resin on panel122 x 61 cms (48 x 24 ins)Contact Gallery
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Jonathan S HooperHeadland No 12signed, titled and dated 2021 versooil, wax and resin on panel122 x 61 cms (48 x 24 ins)Contact Gallery
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Jonathan S HooperLanlavery Rocksigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)£ 5,800.00
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Jonathan S HooperLeskernick Fields No 2signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel70 x 100 cms (27½ x 39½ ins)Contact Gallery
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Jonathan S HooperLight Echoes No 3signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)£ 5,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperLight Echoes No 4signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)£ 5,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperLight Echoes No 5signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)£ 5,500.00
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Jonathan S HooperRough Tor Wave No 4signed, titled and dated 2021 versooil on canvas120 x 150 cms (47 x 59 ins)contact gallery
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Jonathan S HooperSummer Moor Meadowssigned, titled and dated 2021 versooil on panel91 x 61 cms (36 x 24 ins)£ 8,800.00
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Jonathan S HooperMouls Island No 4signed, titled and dated 2008 versooil on canvas150 x 120 cms (59 x 47¼ ins)
framed: 152 x 122 cms (60 x 48 ins)Reserved -
Jonathan S HooperRumps Point No 6signed, titled and dated 2008 versooil on canvas150 x 120 cms (59 x 47¼ ins)
framed: 152 x 122 cms (60 x 48 ins)Reserved -
Jonathan S HooperCrŷksigned, titled and dated 2009 versooil on board106.5 x 61 cms (42 x 24 ins)
framed: 112 x 66 cms (44 x 26 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperPathway: Grey, Orangesigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)
framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperDropsonde No 3titled and dated 2014 versooil on panel50 x 50 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 55 x 55 cms (22 x 22 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperAutumn Daybreak: East to Kellan Headsigned, titled and dated 2015/16 versooil on canvas150 x 120 cms (59 x 47¼ ins)
framed: 152 x 122 cms (60 x 48 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHeadland No 7signed, titled and dated 2001 versooil and wax on board122.5 x 61 cms (48¼ x 24 ins)
framed: 127 x 66 cms (50 x 26 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHeadland No 9signed, titled and dated 2002 versooil, wax and resin on board122.5 x 61 cms (48¼ x 24 ins)
framed: 127 x 66 cms (50 x 26 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air Series No 2.1signed, titled and dated 2009 versooil on canvas51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 56 x 56 cms (22 x 22 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 7signed, titled and dated 2009 versooil on canvas150 x 120 cms (59 x 47 ins)
framed: 152 x 122 cms (60 x 48 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSilent Poolsigned, titled and dated 2013 versooil on panel70 x 50 cms (27½ x 19¾ ins)
framed: 75 x 55 cms (29½ x 21½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHanterganticksigned, titled and dated 2014 versooil on canvas152 x 76 cms (59¾ x 30 ins)
framed: 154 x 78 cms (60½ x 31 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperDustunysigned, titled and dated 2014 versooil on board91.5 x 61 cms (36 x 24 ins)
framed: 96 x 66 cms (38 x 26 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperDropsonde No 5signed, titled and dated 2015 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
framed: 85 x 65 cms (33½ x 25½ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperCerulean and Pinksigned, titled and dated 2016 versooil on panel60 x 50 cms (23½ x 19¾ ins)
framed: 65 x 55 cms (25½ x 21½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperDybarth (Division)signed, titled and dated 2016 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
framed: 85 x 65 cms (33½ x 25½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperWaveform Orange and Greysigned, titled and dated 2016 versooil on panel60 x 50 cms (23½ x 19¾ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperErosion No 5signed, titled and dated 2016/18 versooil, wax and resin on board61 x 45.5 cms (24 x 18 ins)
framed: 66 x 51 cms (26 x 20 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 14signed, titled and dated 2017 versooil on panel40 x 40 cms (15¾ x 15¾ ins)
framed: 45 x 45 cms (18 x 18 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperWaveform No 10signed, titled and dated 2017 versooil and resin on aluminium panel65 x 54 cms (25½ x 21¼ ins)
framed: 67 x 56 cms (26½ x 22 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperWaveform No 11signed, titled and dated 2017 versooil and resin on aluminium panel65 x 54 cms (25½ x 21¼ ins)
framed: 67 x 56 cms (26½ x 22 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHaarsigned, titled and dated 2017 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperPentire No 2signed, titled and dated 2017/18 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31 ½ x 23 ½ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperDe Lanksigned, titled and dated 2018 versooil on panel80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperStannon Moor (Summer Storm)signed, titled and dated 2018 versooil on panel100 x 70 cms (39¼ x 27½ ins)
framed: 105 x 75 cms (41½ x 29½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 16signed, titled and dated 2019 versooil on panel40 x 40 cms (15¾ x 15¾ ins)
framed: 45 x 45 cms (18 x 18 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperNewland No 5signed, titled and dated 2015 versooil on panel50 x 50 cms (19¾ x 19¾ ins)
framed: 55 x 55 cms (21½ x 21½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 13signed and dated 2015 versooil on panel40 x 40 cms (15¾ x 15¾ ins)
framed: 44.5 x 44.5 cms (17½ x 17½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperGulland Rock: Dusk Squallsigned, titled and dated 2015 versooil on panel50 x 50 cms (19¾ x 19¾ ins)
framed: 55 x 55 cms (21½ x 21½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperCrowdy Mistsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 54 x 54 cms (21 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperGarrow Farm: Winter Storm Passingsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)
framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperGranite Mist: Buttern Hillsigned, titled and dated 2021 versooil on canvas120 x 150 cms (47 x 59 ins)
framed: 122 x 152 cms (48 x 60 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHigh Moor: Autumnsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 54 x 54 cms (21 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperHigh Moor: Springsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel50 x 50 cms (19½ x 19½ ins)
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Jonathan S HooperHigh Moor: Summersigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 54 x 54 cms (21 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperMoor Path: Approaching Stormsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
framed: 64 x 54 cms (25 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperRough Tor Summit: Summer Stormsigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
framed: 64 x 54 cms (25 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSeptembersigned, titled and dated 2019 versooil on panel60 x 50 cms (23½ x 19½ ins)
framed: 63 x 53 cms (24½ x 20½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 20signed, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)
framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperTremeersigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
framed: 64 x 54 cms (25 x 21 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSilent Pool 2signed, titled and dated 2019/20 versooil on panel61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
framed: 67 x 57 cms (26½ x 22½ ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperGorse Dawn, Lundy Baysigned, titled and dated 2020 versooil on panel50 x 50 cms (20 x 20 ins)
framed: 56 x 56 cms (22 x 22 ins)Sold -
Jonathan S HooperSolid Air No 12signed, titled and dated 2016 versooil on panel40 x 40 cms (15¾ x 15¾ ins)
framed: 44.5 x 44.5 cms (17½ x 17½ ins)Sold