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Camden's windjammer fest features Hopkins' digital print
by Outspoken on Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:05 am
Camden's windjammer fest features Hopkins' digital print
By George Chappell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
CAMDEN, Maine - North Haven Island artist Eric Hopkins has donated use of his image "Merchant Row #2" for this year’s Windjammer Weekend, Aug. 29-31, in Camden.
The 2008 painted digital print is reproduced in the Windjammer Weekend program and on a Windjammer Weekend poster and T-shirt sold to benefit the event, said Windjammer Weekend coordinator Annie Higbee.
Hopkins has described to Higbee the creation process of the Merchant Row series as it began in fall 2001 during a boat ride in Merchant Row, the archipelago between Deer Isle and Isle au Haut.
"As I left North Haven approaching Deer Isle, the wind and waves picked up. I did a series of about 30 quick drawings. I wanted to capture the excitement and a sense of motion and space and of just plain being alive out in the boat on a gorgeous fall day," Hopkins told Higbee.
"In summer 2005, I had three of the drawings digitally reproduced as black-and-white prints. Over the past few years, I’ve painted over the prints with watercolor, gouache and crayon to further reflect the great feeling of that day."
With broad strokes and bright colors, Hopkins captures the forces and patterns of nature in watercolors, oils, blown glass and photographs. Regardless of his chosen medium, Hopkins’ creative process relies on immediate inspiration, which transcends the specific and addresses a more abstract essence of his experiences, said Higbee.
Born in 1951 in Bangor, Hopkins is a resident of North Haven, where he has maintained studios and a gallery on Hopkins Wharf since 1990. In the summer of 2006, he expanded his studio and gallery space to 21 Winter St. in Rockland.
A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Hopkins has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. He has exhibited his art at the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Waterfall Arts Center, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and a number of galleries nationally.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=168144&zoneid=500
(Image submitted courtesy of Annie Higbee, Image Wright)
By George Chappell
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
CAMDEN, Maine - North Haven Island artist Eric Hopkins has donated use of his image "Merchant Row #2" for this year’s Windjammer Weekend, Aug. 29-31, in Camden.
The 2008 painted digital print is reproduced in the Windjammer Weekend program and on a Windjammer Weekend poster and T-shirt sold to benefit the event, said Windjammer Weekend coordinator Annie Higbee.
Hopkins has described to Higbee the creation process of the Merchant Row series as it began in fall 2001 during a boat ride in Merchant Row, the archipelago between Deer Isle and Isle au Haut.
"As I left North Haven approaching Deer Isle, the wind and waves picked up. I did a series of about 30 quick drawings. I wanted to capture the excitement and a sense of motion and space and of just plain being alive out in the boat on a gorgeous fall day," Hopkins told Higbee.
"In summer 2005, I had three of the drawings digitally reproduced as black-and-white prints. Over the past few years, I’ve painted over the prints with watercolor, gouache and crayon to further reflect the great feeling of that day."
With broad strokes and bright colors, Hopkins captures the forces and patterns of nature in watercolors, oils, blown glass and photographs. Regardless of his chosen medium, Hopkins’ creative process relies on immediate inspiration, which transcends the specific and addresses a more abstract essence of his experiences, said Higbee.
Born in 1951 in Bangor, Hopkins is a resident of North Haven, where he has maintained studios and a gallery on Hopkins Wharf since 1990. In the summer of 2006, he expanded his studio and gallery space to 21 Winter St. in Rockland.
A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Hopkins has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. He has exhibited his art at the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Waterfall Arts Center, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and a number of galleries nationally.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=168144&zoneid=500
(Image submitted courtesy of Annie Higbee, Image Wright)
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