Duncan Hopkins

Duncan Hopkins lives and works close to the North Devon and Cornwall coast, in south west Britain. His drawings and paintings are carefully observed and improvised studies of the sea, coastline and rural landscapes.

He is interested in the atmospheric, topographical, structural and mathematical qualities of the landscape, its inhabitants and phenomena. Can painting and drawing describe, or help communicate or explain the affects of the landscape on the body and mind – consciousness, senses and sensations, feelings, emotions, imagination, fantasies, insights, analysis and reasoning?Or likewise, how do these human, personal things have effects on and within the landscape? The relationship between the landscape and its inhabitants, and the artist, can become quantitative, qualitative, mythic, primal or healing, during the experiences of living.

His images are grounded in drawing methods, and various forms of representation using mark and colour. He is researching and developing drawing and painting techniques based on historical practices. He works primarily with oils, with support work using charcoal, graphite, coloured pencil, pastels and silverpoint.

He continues his personal research into the healing, philosophical and historic...

2011, MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice, University College Falmouth, Cornwall.
– Painting, installation, film, sound and digital media. Performative, solo, relational and collaborative projects. Exhibition design. Theoretical contexts.

Thesis: “Flesh Of The Sensible: Painting, Shamanism and Phenomenology”

2003, HNC Multimedia & Graphic Design, Strode College, Street, Somerset.
– Graphic design, digital design (web, image, photographic, moving). Collaborative commercial film projects. Computer building, coding (html, css). Semiotics. Fine art.

1991, BA Graphic Design, Faculty of Art & Design, Bristol Polytechnic, Somerset.
– Graphic design, pre-computer hand designed & constructed processes, technical drawing, photography, print, illustration, fine art. Historical and theoretical contexts.

1988 - Present