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. His drawings and paintings are carefully observed and improvised studies of the sea, coastline and rural landscapes throughout the south west.
He is particularly interested the evocation of atmosphere and sensation, and the topographical and structural qualities of natural features and phenomena.
He is currently researching and developing drawing and painting methods based on historical practices, and works primarily with oils, using support media including charcoal, graphite, pastels, watercolour and silverpoint.
He has over 35 years experience in the Arts, working in fine art, digital design, and community art projects. His other interests include gardening, and wandering around aimlessly.
