Louise hopkins artist drawings

Louise Hopkins is an artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.

Her paintings and drawings are often made directly onto surfaces that already contain information; world maps, patterned furnishing fabric, magazine pages, printed or hand-drawn grids, photographs, folded or pierced paper, sheet music.

Louise hopkins artist drawings

'Hopkins’ works suggest a chain of contrasts – between mass-produced and handcrafted, reality and artifice, positive and negative, surface and depth, hidden and exposed. In an increasingly fast-paced, image-led world, Hopkins’ interventions are labour-intensive and time-consuming.

She slows down time, inviting us to absorb the information she eradicates or exposes through the physical act of painting. In this way, she makes us question the things we see – not only in her work, but in the world around us.’ Lucy Askew (1).

Recently she has also been developing abstract geometric works for urban and rural locations - ‘Hopkins’ art is always responsive, traditionally working with