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GORDON HOPKINS Around the garden

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GORDON HOPKINS Around the garden

By gbhopkins

gbhopkins

About the Author

Gordon Hopkins
gbhopkins  Brussels, Belgium.
Gordon Hopkins (American born, 1965) fills the everyday with bold colors, a sort of naive style infused with emotion and depth. Pattern color, gardens, landscapes to lemons all come together. The everyday objects and images he experiences generates new ideas. Images from the natural environment are the main focus of this current work.“ In my work as an artist it is very important for me to explore the use of bold colors with many layers, repetition and larger then life format. I like to accentuate or exaggerate a sometimes ordinary object or image. The composition sometimes breaks down into an imaginary world of outlines and colorful backgrounds creating depth and movement.”His representation emphasizes the beauty and perhaps overlooked context of our natural surroundings. He works primarily with oil bar, and oil paint on linen and board. He also has begun to explore working with three dimensional pieces. Visual simplicity, balance and powerful layers of color are the key eleme

Publish Date  October 3, 2009

Dimensions  Square  54 pgs  Premium Paper

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