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HOPPO<br />
'RESONANCE I'<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Table</strong><br />
29th October – 19th November 2022
<strong>The</strong> 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 <strong>The</strong> Sahara; Better To Grow Flowers<br />
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 <strong>The</strong>re Together, Couldn’t We? mixed media on panel 76 x 61cm SOLD
Exercises In Emptying <strong>The</strong> 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 <strong>The</strong> Far East (India) mixed media on wood 77 x 77cm £800
I Do Like A Day By <strong>The</strong> 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<br />
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 (<strong>The</strong> Seven Ps) mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm £800
I Don’t Want To Let <strong>The</strong>m Down mixed media on linen 100 x 100cm SOLD
Sometimes You Have No Choice mixed media on panel 80 x 80cm £800
Surviving <strong>The</strong> 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 <strong>The</strong> Snow mixed media on paper 37 x 36cm £400
<strong>Hoppo</strong> aka Charlie Hopkinson<br />
“All these pictures are selfies,” insists the artist, <strong>Hoppo</strong>. Quite a claim, though<br />
My Bedroom was an Island in a Sea of Pink Wallpaper, might resonate with some. Or not.<br />
Either way, <strong>Hoppo</strong> says he only paints what he has known.<br />
Surviving the Void does appear to incorporate some home truths for a painter who appears<br />
determined to forge a solitary path. His 2020 exhibition in the gallery, Steplines, was very<br />
much a (walking) journey as Resonance appears to be too, beginning with his arrival in Wales<br />
in 2020. References to voids make one wonder if it’s solitude that is embraced rather than<br />
shunned, or perhaps the void refers to the imposed pandemic lockdown during which many<br />
of these pictures were created.<br />
Abstract paintings invariably hold elements of mystery that titles go some way towards<br />
(though rarely the whole way) revealing. <strong>The</strong> rest is down to the viewer. “A picture either<br />
resonates or it doesn’t,” <strong>Hoppo</strong> states. Beyond that? “I don’t know, but Braque summed it up<br />
so well when he wrote: ‘<strong>The</strong> only thing that matters in art is what cannot be explained.’”<br />
We naturally strive for explanations and understandings – the meaning of life, what’s beyond<br />
the universe, what does this painting mean? If we could jump off that bandwagon for a<br />
moment, and simply savour the experience of looking, of being curious, of feeling rather than<br />
understanding, then we might feel more at ease with the mystery of abstract paintings.<br />
“Many of these paintings don’t mean anything, the artist says, “but if they resonate with the<br />
viewer that’s everything I could ask for”. Perhaps the provocative title of the beautiful pink<br />
painting, Look, I’m not Trying To Make a Point Here,’ sums up <strong>Hoppo</strong>’s approach to his work?<br />
Something says that there’s a little more to it than that, but that it’s up to us to find our own<br />
way around this exhibition.
<strong>The</strong>y Worked All <strong>The</strong> Hours God Sent <strong>The</strong>m To Crack This mixed media on paper 37 x 36cm £400<br />
To purchase work please contact Val Harris at art@thetablehay.com or 07956 452195<br />
<strong>The</strong> gallery offers Collectorplan, an initiative administered by the Welsh Assembly,<br />
enabling you to purchase work up to the value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year.<br />
All measurements are for framed sizes unless marked * where the paintings are unframed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 3pm or by appointment during exhibitions.<br />
All paintings are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.