Works
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Stages - 3
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Stages - 3
    signed, titled and dated 2024 on base
    painted aluminium on wood base
    23 x 11 x 11 cms (9 x 4 x 4 ins)
    £ 1,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Stages - 2
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Stages - 2
    signed and dated 2024 on base
    painted aluminium
    20 x 10 x 10 cms (8 x 4 x 4 ins)
    £ 1,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Headland No 4
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Headland No 4
    signed, titled and dated 2001 verso
    oil, wax and resin on board
    122 x 61 cms (48 x 24 ins)
    framed: 127 x 66 cms (50 x 26 ins)
    £ 11,000.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Light Echoes No 3
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Light Echoes No 3
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)
    framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)
    £ 5,500.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Atmosphere (7 layers)
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Atmosphere (7 layers)
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
    framed: 53 x 53 cms (21 x 21 ins)
    £ 5,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Light Echoes No 5
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Light Echoes No 5
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    41 x 41 cms (16 x 16 ins)
    framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)
    £ 5,500.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Growan
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Growan
    signed, titled and dated 2019/20 verso
    oil on panel
    80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
    framed: 83 x 63 cms (32½ x 24½ ins)
    £ 8,500.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Erosion No 6
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Erosion No 6
    signed, titled and dated 2017/2018 verso
    oil on panel
    40 x 40 cms (16 x 16 ins)
    framed: 45 x 45 cms (18 x 18 ins)
    £ 5,500.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Grid. Grey. Orange
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Grid. Grey. Orange
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
    framed: 56 x 56 cms (22 x 22 ins)
    £ 5,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Random Walk No 1
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Random Walk No 1
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
    framed: 56 x 56 cms (22 x 22 ins)
    £ 5,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Random Walk No 2
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Random Walk No 2
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
    framed: 56 x 56 cms (22 x 22 ins)
    £ 5,800.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Leskernick Fields No 4
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Leskernick Fields No 4
    signed, titled and dated 2020 verso
    oil on panel
    51 x 61 cms (20 x 24 ins)
    framed: 57 x 67 cms (22 x 26 ins)
    £ 6,200.00
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Zennor 2
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Zennor 2
    signed, titled and dated 2024 verso
    oil on panel
    40 x 40 cms (16 x 16 ins)
    framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)
    Sold
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Zennor 1
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Zennor 1
    signed, titled and dated 2024 verso
    oil on panel
    40 x 40 cms (16 x 16 ins)
    framed: 44 x 44 cms (17 x 17 ins)
    Sold
  • Jonathan S Hooper, Molinia (Moor Grass)
    Jonathan S Hooper
    Molinia (Moor Grass)
    signed, titled and dated 2017 verso
    oil on panel
    80 x 60 cms (31½ x 23½ ins)
    framed: 83 x 63 cms (33 x 25 ins)
    Sold
Biography

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.

Video
Exhibitions