Lisa was born in Hampshire and has lived in north east Essex, mid Wales, Gloucestershire, and finally SW Scotland, where she has now settled.
She has always painted, exploring a variety of media and subjects. The turning point in her artistic development came in 1992 when she joined an evening class in etching at what is now the University of Gloucestershire. Over successive years her commitment to printmaking grew and in 1998 she bought her own press. She became a full time artist in 2006 when she moved to Port William, in Scotland.
Lisa’s work is now sold regularly in the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries; the McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas; “Heron flying the Rockcliffe Gallery on the Colvend Coast and the Whitehouse Gallery in Kirkcudbright. She also sells from the Birdscapes Gallery in Glandford, Norfolk, the Old House Gallery, Oakham and at the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland water, annually.
Lisa won the Birds, Birds, Birds prize for the best innovative exhibit at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art on the Wirral for her Bird Alphabet print, in the summer of 2007. In 2008 she won the Birds Illustrated prize for the most outstanding piece of avian artwork at the same show with her woodcut ‘A gaggle of geese’.
She has a busy programme of solo exhibitions, at galleries and country fairs throughout England & Scotland.
Her work is varied both in terms of technique and subject matter but her passion for landscape and natural history, particularly birds, is evident in much of her work. Recently Lisa has been working on a number of artists’ book projects and experimenting with batik on paper, both of which possess some synergy with printmaking.
Lisa also teaches printmaking and batik from her studio/gallery.
Lisa Hooper
Lisa was born in Hampshire and has lived in north east Essex, mid Wales, Gloucestershire, and finally SW Scotland, where she has now settled.
She has always painted, exploring a variety of media and subjects. The turning point in her artistic development came in 1992 when she joined an evening class in etching at what is now the University of Gloucestershire. Over successive years her commitment to printmaking grew and in 1998 she bought her own press. She became a full time artist in 2006 when she moved to Port William, in Scotland.
Lisa’s work is now sold regularly in the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries; the McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas; “Heron flying the Rockcliffe Gallery on the Colvend Coast and the Whitehouse Gallery in Kirkcudbright. She also sells from the Birdscapes Gallery in Glandford, Norfolk, the Old House Gallery, Oakham and at the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland water, annually.
Lisa won the Birds, Birds, Birds prize for the best innovative exhibit at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art on the Wirral for her Bird Alphabet print, in the summer of 2007. In 2008 she won the Birds Illustrated prize for the most outstanding piece of avian artwork at the same show with her woodcut ‘A gaggle of geese’.
She has a busy programme of solo exhibitions, at galleries and country fairs throughout England & Scotland.
Her work is varied both in terms of technique and subject matter but her passion for landscape and natural history, particularly birds, is evident in much of her work. Recently Lisa has been working on a number of artists’ book projects and experimenting with batik on paper, both of which possess some synergy with printmaking.
Lisa also teaches printmaking and batik from her studio/gallery.
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