Jonathan Hooper
6 June - 4 July
For the last fifteen years, Jonathan's exclusive subject has been the domestic architecture of Leeds, his adoptive home city. The paintings in this exhibition show places within a short walk of his home in Headingley - the suburb's characteristic red-brick terraces and semis; hedges, trees, walls, footpaths; as well as older buildings, reminders of the history of the area before it was swallowed up by the expanding city of Leeds. His non-naturalistic colour is an attempt to grasp the physical experience of being in a place, and the way this mixes with memory and emotion.
Biography
Jonathan Hooper is an artist based in Leeds in West Yorkshire. He grew up in the Chilterns, and studied at Bucks College of Higher Education, Falmouth School of Art and Design, and the University of Leeds.
He paints the landscape of the city of Leeds, in particular the domestic architecture and spaces of the suburbs to its north-west.
He was one of the five painters in the group exhibition Where We Live which toured England in 2021-23. In 2024 he was awarded the Milner Prize for an Emerging Artist at the Annual Exhibition of the New English Art Club (NEAC), and he was elected a member of the NEAC in 2025.