"Painting Light" recent Works by Janette K. Hopper 

The Burgwin-Wright House is pleased to welcome Janette Hopper, for her solo show “Painting Light,” inspired by the special places she has experienced while hiking, camping and kayaking.

The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday June 23 from 6-9PM.

Hopper’s art will be on display in our gallery through July 22. Admission is free. Gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm

About the Artist

My works are inspired by the special places I have experienced while hiking, camping and kayaking. I have explored beaches, mountains, black water swamps, creeks, fields and visited many unique beautiful places. The outdoors long has enchanted me and inspired my art. I have learned how significant fire is to the land, water to the swamps and marshes and the interrelation of all these elements to the animals and plants we call nature. As an artist, Cezanne and JMW Turner came close to finding an artistic mode to express his feelings about nature. It is my journey too, as an artist to observe nature and then share with you what I see through the materials and techniques of art. My searching gaze, artistic discipline and my sensitivity to the processes and materials of art you can see on the website or in my exhibits. Some works also address contemporary issues and make satire or political comment. Other works speak loudly about our dilemma as human beings hoping to join our efforts to spare nature as we know it.

I love our parks and wild lands. I want them sustained not depleted because of exploitation and monetary motives but preserved so that all of us can find a deeper meaning. The wealth of solitude, wildness, and beauty that so enriches our inner lives and brings us peace enables us to join together and build a future.

As a recipient of two prestigious Fulbrights, one from Denmark and one from the United States, she spent a year teaching and painting in Denmark and exhibiting in European one-person shows and, as a member of Paleur International in group exhibits. Her works have been in over 250 solo, invitational and group shows in art centers, galleries and in juried exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Her art has been collected extensively in over 60 public art venues, principally in museums, colleges and universities and also in private collections in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Canada and the Netherlands. In the US her paintings and prints were shown with New York artists in the Lincoln Center in NYC and included in a Fulbright juried retrospective in Washington, DC. She has a MFA from the University of Oregon, has taught in Denmark, Italy, Germany and in the United States and served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Maria la Baja Colombia, SA.

Recently, she had a painting collected by the National Nordic Museum and a film juried into the 2023 Venice (Italy) International Art Fair. She was the featured artist at a benefit for Coastal Land Trust held by Big Sky Design in Wilmington, NC and her works were shown at the Annual Fulbright Conference and invitational print shows in Spain, Portugal and Poland (2022). She had a solo art show in Noja Spain and a short film in the 2021 Edition of the Venice (Italy) International Art Fair. She participated in a month long invitational virtual residency in Buenos Aries with the Programa Internacional De Residencias Artisticas (ACE) in 2020. In the summer of 2019, she was selected to be a part of the prestigious Simposio Internacional de Artistas XIX in Noja Spain. WILMA Magazine has named her a "Woman to Watch" in the arts and she was the Juror/Judge of the 2018 Official North Carolina Azalea Festival Art Show.

She is represented by:
Art Source at the Northwest Museum of Art in Spokane WA
All About Art on Bald Head Island, NC
BIG SKY Design in Wilmington NC
City Art Gallery in Greenville NC
Galeria Espiral in Noja Spain
LAGALA in Merida Mexico
Print Arts Northwest in Portland OR

To see more of Hopper's work visit www.janettekhopper.com