Simon Hopkinson
Simon Hopkinson
Simon Hopkinson

Exhibitions

2011
Bocabar Bristol  Dec to Feb 2012
The Grant Bradley Gallery Bristol Nov
The Lloyd Gill Gallery Western-Super-Mare Oct
The Tobacco Factory Bristol  Sept
The Bristol Folk House cafe Bristol  Sept
The Grant Bradley Gallery Bristol Aug
RWA The Fedden Bristol  March
2010
RWA open exhibition Bristol
Victoria Art Gallery open exhibition Bath
2009
Urban Landscape Series  Bath
BAS Bath
Victoria Art Galley open exhibition Bath
2006 'Beneath The Sky'  Bath
1997 'Fin de Siecle'  Bath
1993 'Landscapes of the Mind'  Oxford

These images stem from my longstanding interest in British urban scenery. I view areas of sprawl and decay not as eyesores but as subject matter to be explored. An accidental beauty occurs where the modern is adjoined by a crumbling past - a result of man made change and natural decline, with nature in control. To my eyes everything - weeds, litter, brutalist architecture - can have a glowing significance. Form is a secondary, surface concern.
To create symbolic paintings I have united elements of different landscapes and added figures, under the guidance of my imagination.
These figures include cemetery statues, dolls and female forms and have been placed in their surroundings to convey certain states such as loss or threat. Their isolation is intended to evoke an eerie melancholy.