Eric Hopkins
A leading contemporary artist in Maine, Eric Hopkins is known for his colorful, powerful images. With broad strokes and bright colors, he captures the dynamic forces and patterns of nature in watercolors, oils, blown glass, and photography.
Born in 1951 in Bangor, Maine, Eric is a native of North Haven Island, where he has a studio and a gallery on Hopkins Wharf, as well as a gallery in Rockland, Maine. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Eric has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School and has exhibited 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. Eric’s paintings and glass are held in many private and public collections, including the Farnsworth Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, 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.
A poem, titled Helios 3, accompanies his paddle:
Eric Hopkins July 08, 2008