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

He was awarded the Milner Prize for an Emerging Artist at the NEAC Annual Exhibition 2024, and was shortlisted for the Jackson's Painting Prize in 2023. He was one of the five painters in the well-received group exhibition Where We Live which toured England in 2021-23. 

He currently has work in Saltaire Art Gallery, Saltaire, and Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield.