About

Biography

Jonathan Hooper is a painter based in Leeds. He grew up in the Chilterns, and studied at Bucks College of Higher Education, Falmouth School of Art and Design, and the University of Leeds. 

His subject is the built landscape of the city of Leeds, in particular the residential architecture of the suburbs to its north-west.

Jonathan Hooper with his paintings Who Knows Where The Time Goes? at The Art Court Spring Exhibition 2024

Statement

My twin subjects are colour, and the built landscape of Leeds. 

I walk and take photographs each day. From these I explore colour and composition using watercolour on paper, before making paintings in oil. Each series of paintings has a similar colour approach and emotional atmosphere: this comes partly from the original subject and my feelings about it; but it is partly developed independently in the studio, as I evolve my pictorial ideas. 

I am not trying to replicate the subject as it appears at a particular time on a particular day; but to show how it really is, how it feels, how it is in memory or imagination. 

Jonathan Hooper, May 2024

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