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Emma Hopkins RP

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Mixed Emotions 05

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
32 x 24 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

Robert and Martha

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
107 x 64 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

Study of Worry 01

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
51 x 37 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

Study of Worry 02

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
51 x 37 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

Rodrick MacClancy

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
109 x 64 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

He Came Back Three Times

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
126 x 96 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

Doreen Wallace

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Emma Hopkins RP
Oil
121 x 82 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

Doreen Wallace Study 03

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Emma Hopkins RP
Mixed media
111 x 82 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018
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About Emma Hopkins RP

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

For all the trials conjured by our bodies and minds, Emma Hopkins has emerged as documentarian in chief. A bright young star of British art, 2017 finds Hopkins in the ascendant, her oeuvre captivating in its emotional intensity and uncompromising in its pursuit of uncovering our facades and conveying our raw existence.

It is the revelation that Hopkins is a self-taught painter that proves most confounding. Born in Brighton in 1989, she completed a degree at University of the Arts London, where she was trained in the special art of Prosthetics for Performance. It was this that instilled an obsession with the human form and anatomy, one which coupled with her passion for the traditional techniques of portrait painting, led to Hopkins’ approach being so unique.

A pioneer with seismographic awareness, Emma Hopkins takes the overt and the caressed, the yelled and the whispered and makes them tangible, bringing to the fore the battles waged by us all. In challenging our conception of the painted portrait she has ushered the tradition into the 21st century.

‘We are not just the clothed person we present to the world. We are the mind and body that we inhabit, which at no point stay the same.’

In what she has come to describe as her ‘portrait projects’, Hopkins works with sitters over a period of a few months to a few years to enable a study of being that continuously changes over time. She paints those who have in their own right fascinated her as an artist, and who then become the catalyst for a larger body of investigation. The portrait projects act as a mirror to our multifaceted nature, allowing her to explore themes that she fears the most; hidden motives, illness and death.

A prodigious talent awarded both the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award and the Bulldog Bursary, Emma Hopkins is now a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and at the forefront of contemporary portrait painting. Vital and transformative, her work tackles our core functioning and lays it bare with inexorable honesty. By melding the subject’s anatomical and psychological existence with her own, she preserves life, divining strength from fragility and beauty from darkness; the result - a timeless rendering of shared experience.

Method of Working

I only paint nude portraits as my work seeks to portray both mind and body in the most honest way possible. The portraits capture the memory of that person at that time, and they are works of art not objects of flattery. I ask for the subject to trust that the finished outcome will be derived from my instincts and not from an idealised perspective. It is important for me to know the sitter, so I always start with a coffee and take it from there.

Society Memberships

Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2015: The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award in association in with The Arts Club - The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

2014: The Bulldog Bursary - Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

Exhibitions

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2017
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2016
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2015
Inside Portraits

Other exhibitions

2017:

NOH/WAVE, Los Angeles UAS, Lo/WAVE group show

2016:

90 Piccadilly, London, group portrait show, 'FACE|TIME'

Newspeak House, London, group show, 'Modern Panic 7'

2015:

Southwark Adult Learning Centre, London, An Introduction into Art Therapy 

2014:

Kukuruchos, Guadalajara- Mexico, group exhibition 'Alter Ego'

The Chelsea Arts Club, London, group exhibition 'Saturnalia' 

Commissions

Price guide

Oil - Life Sized

Head (face, hair and ears): 
£2,000
Head and shoulder: 
£3,000
Half body: 
£4,000
Whole body: 
£5,000

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