Returning by Georgia Hopkins

Georgia Hopkins was born in the U.S., in Savannah, GA., and during her childhood was moved to Ireland, living in Co.Kerry and Co.Louth. After studying in Belfast, Georgia moved to Cork, where she has found her spiritual home, and has lived for nearly 20 years. Georgia is a self-taught artist, and has been exhibiting her work publicly since 1998. She has completed five residencies at the Cill Rialaig Artists Centre, and her work is strongly focused on the power of the natural world. Georgia’s work has been exhibited in Ireland and abroad, and is represented in private collections nationally and internationally.

‘My paintings are all essentially atmospheric, meditative pieces. They tend towards seascapes, landscapes or abstracts, they are small in scale, and are all painted in water-based media, primarily gouache and watercolour.

Mood, light, water and nature are the recurring themes and inspiration points in all of my work, the choice of water-based medium allowing the intensity of colour to co-exist with an ethereal quality of moments caught in time.

The intention is that viewing the works is at once a calming and uplifting experience. All of my paintings are imbued with the powerful nature that inspired them, and to spend a while before them is, hopefully, to be drawn to a place both within and beyond the works themselves.’ 

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Alliance Francaise de Cork,
Enterprise House, 2nd Floor, 36 Mary Street, Cork.
24th Nov 2011 (Thu) - 6th Jan 2012