About Duncan Hopkins
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Education
2010 - 2011
MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice - University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
2001 - 2003
HNC Multimedia + Graphic Design - Strode College, Street, Somerset, UK
1987 - 1990
BA Graphic Design + Illustration - Bristol Polytechnic, Bristol, UK
Awards
2018
Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2018
2015
Royal Society of Marine Artists Open
2014
Royal Society of Marine Artists Open
2014
The Threadneedle Prize
2014
Evolver Prize
2014
The Plough Open Drawing Competition
2013
Plough Drawing Competition
2012
Door Prize For Painting
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Event: WHOBIDARTS 99th Summer Exhibition
Dates: 17 May 2021 - 4 Jul 2021
The Westward Ho! & Bideford Arts Society 99th Summer Exhibition is now on at the Burton at Bideford. I am exhibiting the one oil painting, ‘Walk This Way’, 100 x 100 x 4 cm, made last year.
Event: The Seasonal
Dates: 5 Dec 2020 - 21 Jan 2021
Relaxing, atmospheric paintings and drawings of the rural landscape and coast of the South West – from the moor to the shore. A collection of new and older works in oil, mixed media, pastel, charcoal and graphite. Work will be available to buy.
COVID update –
There will be no Private View for this exhibition. The galleries, museum and cafe are open, but there is a one way system in place, and masks must be worn.
Event: COAST
Dates: 20 Jul 2018 - 7 Sep 2018
Ceramicist Roger Cockram and artists Duncan Hopkins, Mark Rochester and Mike Woollacott have been inspired by the North Devon coastline with spectacular results.
Event: Wave / Particle
Dates: 13 Jan 2018 - 17 Feb 2018
An exhibition of 32 drawings and paintings produced between 2011 and 2018.
In quantum mechanics, light photons can be explained as behaving both as a wave and as a particle. This exhibition in the main gallery features new and existing paintings and drawings which are based around this non-geometric structural framework. The work is produced through observation and the intuitive creative process, and consists of objective, subjective and phenomenological studies of the sea, water, landscape, figure, and organic abstraction.
The work engages with concepts of chaos, complexity, tranquillity, perception, magic, shamanism and metaphor.
Duncan Hopkins lives and works in Bideford, North Devon and has been producing and experimenting with imagery from a young age. He was trained in graphic design, illustration and multimedia, and has a Masters in Fine Art from Falmouth Unversity, 2011.
Biography
Duncan Hopkins lives and works close to the North Devon and Cornwall coast, in south west Britain. His drawings and paintings are carefully observed and improvised studies of the sea, coastline and rural landscapes.
He is interested in the atmospheric, topographical, structural and mathematical qualities of the landscape, its inhabitants and phenomena. Can painting and drawing describe, or help communicate or explain the affects of the landscape on the body and mind – consciousness(es), senses and sensations, feelings, emotions, imagination, fantasies, insights, analysis and reasoning? Or likewise, how do these human, personal things have effects on and within the landscape? The relationship between the landscape and its inhabitants, and the artist, can become quantitative, qualitative, mythic, primal or healing, during the experiences of living.
His images are grounded in drawing methods, and various forms of representation using mark and colour. He is researching and developing drawing and painting techniques based on historical practices. He works primarily with oils, with support work using charcoal, graphite, coloured pencil, pastels and silverpoint.
He continues his personal research into the healing, philosophical, cultural and historical aspects of Shamanism, Buddhism, Wicca and earth magic. He has a current particular interest in Tibetan Buddhist thangkra paintings, and the Tantric arts.
He has over 40 years experience in the Arts, working in fine art, graphic and web design. He has also been involved in community and collective art projects, such as artist-led galleries and spaces, and helping with small film and music festival events. His other interests include a bit of gardening, meditation, astronomy, smoking in the shed, wandering around aimlessly and laying around languidly.
This website focuses on painting and drawing works, and is a selected collection from the last few years, as this particular body of work is indicative of his current practice.
There is a small archive section showing selected paintings from 1992 – 2014. The graphic design projects, web design and digital artworks (film, sound, music) are not included, as these now remain dormant practices, even though they continue to inform some current approaches to painting, drawing and image-making.
