Laura Hopkins
Laura Hopkins paints expressive, atmospheric landscapes in oil. The fleeting light of twilight, dawn, and evening, particularly in autumn and winter, serve as favorite motifs.
Born and raised in Franklin, a small dairy farming town in rural southeastern Connecticut, Hopkins spent much of her childhood exploring the stonewall bordered fields, woods, and wetlands surrounding her family home. She now lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains outside Middleburg, Virginia, amid pastures and fields criss-crossed with stone walls and three-board fences.
Although Hopkins creates much of her work in the studio, her painting process remains rooted in time spent outdoors. Field studies, drawings, and photos serve as a creative wellspring for intuitive, gestural paintings that can vary from closely representative of a specific place to boldly imagined from an abstract start.
Her work is strongly influenced by the historic American Tonalists, a group whose moody and atmospheric landscapes paintings of rural and coastal New England were popular in the decades between the Civil War and WWI.
Hopkins is a member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, the Loudoun Sketch Club, and the Lyme (CT) Art Association. Her award-winning work has been featured in Elan Magazine and Middleburg Life.
