Oil painting by Jonathan Hooper showing a wooden seating shelter in a park in Leeds
Shelter Oil on canvas 61x91cm 2023
This painting will be on show at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh, 11 May - 16 June 2024

Jonathan Hooper is a painter, interested in colour and in a sense of place: his subject is the built landscape of the city and suburbs of Leeds. 

He was one of the five painters in Where We Live which toured England in 2021-23, and he was shortlisted for the Jackson's Painting Prize in 2023. He currently has paintings on show in the First White Cloth Hall, Leeds, as part of The Art Court's Spring Exhibition, and in Saltaire Art Gallery near Bradford. 

You can view a selection of recent oil paintings on the Selected oil paintings page, with larger groups of paintings on the Archive pages, and works in watercolour, gouache and ink on the Recent works on paper page.