In 2012 we are on sabbatical from teaching regular classes and workshops at Art at Hooper Studios. Two week long summer kids camps will be offered and we will host more off site work this year.
Our email and telephone 506-650-3333 messages will be answered at the end of each week.
Hooper Studios Gallery will open for the 2012 season with the first exhibition in June.
Thank-you all for your continued support.
Sue and Kathy Hooper
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening for the 2012 season with New Works
Helga Lobb and Fred Harrison
Sunday, June 17th, from 2 - 5
runs to July 7th
Hooper Studios Gallery Summer garden party
with featured artists
Sue and Kathy Hooper
Saturday July 14th, 10 to 4 and Sunday, July 15th, from 12- 4
runs to August 4th
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening
with featured artists Mary Joan Edwards, Memory Transfer and George Fry
The Books of George Fry
Sunday, August 12th, from 2 - 5, runs to September 1st
Hooper Studios Gallery Opening InSight of the Bright Particulars
with featured artists, Deborah Payne and Sheryl Crowley
Sunday, September 9th, from 2 - 5, runs to September 29th
Come celebrate your creative life with us!
Surrounded by art and vibrant color, you walk through beautiful gardens on your way to the Hooper Studios Gallery. You are enveloped in a vibrant creative energy on the lovely hillside property, overlooking the Kennebecasis River Valley. This expressive, natural setting enhances your gallery experience of selecting art for your living spaces -be it for home, cottage, and office- or for outdoor spaces such as your garden and patio.
Our artistic community of both established and emerging artists offer works in traditional as well as mixed media art forms representing diverse contemporary styles that draw you in, trigger your imagination, and touch your spirit. We especially enjoy offering you exhibits of an eclectic nature that go beyond the display of paintings and at times include the works of potters, sculptors, woodworkers, printmakers, photographers, fibre artists, and jewellers. We delight in sharing with you unique pieces that caught our attention such as masks, collages, historical maps, and fashion accessories. Our only criteria are that the work is quality and honours creativity.
We deeply believe leading an inspired and fulfilling life includes art. Like music, a painting or sculpture can speak to your core; even alter your view of life. To that end, we encourage frequent visits to our gallery to immerse yourself in the offerings of our mostly local artistic community. Should you wish to own a work and support the artist, we accept most methods of payment. If preferable, a payment plan can always be arranged for you.
Sue Hooper has a range of strongly coloured emotional work mostly acrylic paintings on paper and canvas. Her work is evocative of her life, filled with a great love and growing understanding of the place all of us play in this world. She is also a graphic artist and has worked for many years in this profession. At present she manages Hooper Studios, teaches art both on and off site, and works in her studio. Sue and Kathy travel back to South Africa for the month of March and the Gallery opens for the season May 22nd with a show inspired by their trip. Sue is currently excited to be teaching art in the new art room at the Boys and Girls Club in Saint John. She and Fred Harrison, a nationally recognized mural artist, plan to work with the children this summer on a large exterior mural depicting the history of the club. Sue joins Kathy and 16 local artists in a group show: Stimularae that opens at the Saint John Art Center, Friday, October 28th, 2011.
Kathy Hooper has worked for many years as a painter and sculptor and her work is in many public and private collections. Her art, often done in series, explores an idea or emotion in which she is interested. Sometimes the imagery in these paintings gives rise to small, clay sculptures, drawings and prints or the design of a large platter! She is also part of a third group show, Stimularae, that opens at the Saint John Art Center, Friday, October 28th, 2011, with the same artists as the highly successful " Beyond words" exhibition of 2008-2010.
Kathy is part of a group show with Toby Graser and Suzanne Hill entitled "Invisible Worlds", which shows until April 17th at the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John.
Terry Graff, the curator of the show, writes of her work.........
"In the three distinct groups of recent work presented here - "Landscapes Restored," "Icon Series," and "Iconic Beings" - the artist evokes recognition that our ordinary human existence is encompassed by a previously unacknowledged plane of being where the unseen is the ground of the seen. She states, "We don't 'see' what is really there." Her focus is not on representing the external landscape but on bringing to the surface hidden structures and forgotten images buried deep within the self that have not been erased, only covered up."
This year we have a great line up of shows starting with "Return to Africa" on May 14th inspired by our journey to South Africa and continuing with the annual Kings County Studio Tour on June 11th & 12th. Throughout the summer we will have a rotation of various works of art in the gallery and then in September - October shows by Larry Stewart and local artists. We will end the season in November with a special holiday exhibition. Please watch the web for opening times.
