Watercolor, gouache and crayon

20" x 16" unframed, 27" x 23", framed

 

Eric Hopkins has made hundreds of drawings and paintings inspired by the sunrise over Rockland Harbor. “I love to get up early and watch the sun illuminate another day over Rockland Harbor,” says Eric. “The sky, clouds, tide, and currents are constantly changing, second by second, from first light to high sun.” The imagery that Eric has produced from this early-morning light show is just as diverse and ever changing, from highly detailed and delineated to bold and stylized. In 2009, fueled by a particularly intense sunrise, Eric painted the Helios Rising series—three iconic representations of the sun rising over Owls Head. The dark outlines are smooth and calligraphic, dividing the composition into three elemental zones—water, land, and sky. The colors convey the warmth of the sun against the stark morning landscape and icy winter harbor. 

Eric Hopkins' bio:

Eric Hopkins has engaged numerous people through his art and with his thoughts about life on this Big Blue Planet. With the eyes of an artist, the words of a poet, and the mind of a scientist, he captures the dynamic forces and rhythms of nature in watercolors, oils, blown glass, mixed media, and photography. His vision focuses on the Big Picture of the natural world, geological and geographical forms, and the exchange of energy between Earth, Water, and Sky. From this intimate study of nature, Eric has developed a keen awareness of light, form, color, and pattern, which is reflected in all of his work and particularly his recent work with mixed media and molten glass.

Born in 1951, Eric is a native of North Haven Island, Maine. In 2006, Eric established a studio and year-round gallery in Rockland, Maine.

Eric is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. He has exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Waterfall Arts Center, University of Maine Museum of Art, and a number of galleries nationally. Eric’s paintings and glass are held in many private and public collections, including the Farnsworth Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Bates College Museum of Art, University of Southern Maine, Corning Museum of Glass, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, and the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies: Bahamas, Pakistan, Philippines, and the West Indies. He is also represented in the corporate collections of L.L. Bean, Johnson Wax, Sanyo Securities, and Idexx Laboratories.

 

Visit the artist at www.erichopkins.com.