Hoppo_The_Table

HOPPO
'RESONANCE I'
The Table
29th October – 19th November 2022

The Refugee And Her Child mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm SOLD

Pink Void mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm £800

Building Dreams mixed media on wood panel 61 x 61cm £600

It’s Difficult To Build An Igloo In The Sahara; Better To Grow Flowers
Instead mixed media on linen 105 x 105cm SOLD

Never Turn Your Back In This Arena mixed media on panel 100 x 100cm SOLD

We Could Travel There Together, Couldn’t We? mixed media on panel 76 x 61cm SOLD

Exercises In Emptying The Mind mixed media on panel 76 x 61cm SOLD

Look, I’m Not Trying To Make A Point Here mixed media on panel 122 x 92 cm £1400

Captain Larkin Returning From The Far East (India) mixed media on wood 77 x 77cm £800

I Do Like A Day By The Seaside mixed media on panel 90 x 90cm £900

A Good Woman Is Hard To Find (triptych) acrylic and oil on panel 41 x 123cm £1200

Ernest In Pamplona mixed media on panel 77 x 77cm £800

Hormuz Midday mixed media on panel 25 x 25cm £300

Indian Yellow Saffron mixed media on linen 65 x 65 cm SOLD

Things Don’t Always Fall Into Place But If You Can Learn To Live With That You’ll Lead
A More Comfortable Life mixed media on panel 92 x 92cm £900

Icarus’s View mixed media on panel 61 x 61 cm SOLD

My Bedroom Was An Island In A Vast Sea Of Pink Wallpaper mixed media on panel 100 x 100 cm SOLD

Give Me Paintings Over Meds Any Day mixed media on panel 76 x 61cm £750

Side By Side mixed media on panel 76 x 61cm £750

January Birthdays mixed media on panel 40 x 40cm £400

Sunday Night Friends (The Seven Ps) mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm £800

I Don’t Want To Let Them Down mixed media on linen 100 x 100cm SOLD

Sometimes You Have No Choice mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm £800

Surviving The Void mixed media on panel 40 x 40cm £400

Where Farming And Art Meet mixed media on panel 40 x 40cm £400

I Love You mixed media on paper 37 x 36cm SOLD

Salisbury Plain In The Snow mixed media on paper 37 x 36cm £400

Hoppo aka Charlie Hopkinson
“All these pictures are selfies,” insists the artist, Hoppo. Quite a claim, though
My Bedroom was an Island in a Sea of Pink Wallpaper, might resonate with some. Or not.
Either way, Hoppo says he only paints what he has known.
Surviving the Void does appear to incorporate some home truths for a painter who appears
determined to forge a solitary path. His 2020 exhibition in the gallery, Steplines, was very
much a (walking) journey as Resonance appears to be too, beginning with his arrival in Wales
in 2020. References to voids make one wonder if it’s solitude that is embraced rather than
shunned, or perhaps the void refers to the imposed pandemic lockdown during which many
of these pictures were created.
Abstract paintings invariably hold elements of mystery that titles go some way towards
(though rarely the whole way) revealing. The rest is down to the viewer. “A picture either
resonates or it doesn’t,” Hoppo states. Beyond that? “I don’t know, but Braque summed it up
so well when he wrote: ‘The only thing that matters in art is what cannot be explained.’”
We naturally strive for explanations and understandings – the meaning of life, what’s beyond
the universe, what does this painting mean? If we could jump off that bandwagon for a
moment, and simply savour the experience of looking, of being curious, of feeling rather than
understanding, then we might feel more at ease with the mystery of abstract paintings.
“Many of these paintings don’t mean anything, the artist says, “but if they resonate with the
viewer that’s everything I could ask for”. Perhaps the provocative title of the beautiful pink
painting, Look, I’m not Trying To Make a Point Here,’ sums up Hoppo’s approach to his work?
Something says that there’s a little more to it than that, but that it’s up to us to find our own
way around this exhibition.

They Worked All The Hours God Sent Them To Crack This mixed media on paper 37 x 36cm £400
To purchase work please contact Val Harris at art@thetablehay.com or 07956 452195
The gallery offers Collectorplan, an initiative administered by the Welsh Assembly,
enabling you to purchase work up to the value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year.
All measurements are for framed sizes unless marked * where the paintings are unframed.
The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 3pm or by appointment during exhibitions.
All paintings are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.