Karin Hopkinson

I paint emotional landscapes, using nature as a way to explore memory, impermanence, growth and renewal. Working primarily in oil, I build layered colour and expressive forms to translate the landscape as an experience rather than a literal place.

I love working with oils and painting is my passion. Nature is the main inspiration of my work. I am constantly amazed how the cycles of life and death interwine and happens so quietly and beautifully. Sometimes there is an eerie feeling about how simple and fragile our lives are. We forget how much we are a part of nature’s cycles and that all the things we hold so dear are of no consequence to its majestic presence. The things we feel and see are the things that surpass mortality. I translate this feeling in my work.

Colour is an important factor in my work. I see colour as a gift from nature but it is also of great material value to me, it’s a bridge between nature’s treasures and mine. I try to mix my colours as little as possible. I layer these colours almost like a print, one at a time and so leave my human intrepetation on what I observe from nature.

Artist Bio:

I was born in the spring of 1972 in Helsinki, Finland. Not long after, my family moved back to South Africa, where I ...

BA Fine Arts

Group Exhibition: Terra Incognita
Knysna Fine Art Gallery (2026)

Group Exhibition: Pause & Perceive
The Gallery at Steyn City (2026)

AVA Members Exhibition:
AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2026)

Group Exhibition: Held by the Sea
Art Point Gallery, Cape Town (2026)

Group Exhibition: Art on the Mountain
Suidoosterfees, Cape Town (2026)

Group Exhibition:
Art on the Mountain, 33 Bree Artist Gallery, Cape Town (2026)

Group Exhibition: Out the Box
Noordhoek Art Point, Cape Town (2026)

Group Exhibition: Two, To & Two
Ink Box Gallery, Cape Town (2025)

Solo Exhibition: Viridescent
Ink Box Gallery, Cape Town (2025)

Finalist:
Vuleka Art Competition, Art.B Gallery, Cape Town (2024)

Group Exhibition:
St Francis Bay Gallery, Calamari Festival (2024)

Emerging Artists Programme, City of Cape Town (2024)

Group Exhibition: The Still Life of Others
Marvol Gallery, Hazendal Estate, Cape Town (2023)