John Hopkins is a graduate of Swain School of Design and of Boston University. His work has shown through out the Northeast and he has been the recipient of grants and awards for his paintings and for curating the work of others. His home and studio are the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Artist's Statement
I was trained as a figurative painter, but find myself painting landscape exclusively. Brought up in a rural dairy community I find the patchwork of fields and woodlands that is typical of east coast farms has a geometry that speaks of my relationship to the land. For the first ten years or so that I painted landscape, there was nothing but the fields and walls to indicate that people even existed. Then buildings began to creep into the view. What had always been a rather bland and empty sky took on a life of its own. This work I do is an adventure, always changing in ways that surprise and excite me. I am bewildered by the sense of otherness that penetrates today's perspective on the natural world. We are not separate, but are an integral part of the ever changing reality.
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