Lisa Hooper

Hoopoe Prints
Studio/gallery
Seymour House
25 High Street
Port William DG8 9SL

I welcome visitors when I am at home and by appointment as well as running courses and workshops. Various types of printmaking are on offer as well as the innovative technique of batik on paper.  For more details and a calendar, please phone or e mail.

Tel 01988 700392
Email
Website www.hoopoeprints.co.uk

Lisa is an artist/printmaker living in Port William. Her work has been marketed by galleries in the Gloucestershire area and now in Dumfries and Galloway. Her work is varied both in terms of technique and subject matter but her passion for landscape and natural history is evident in much of her work. Recently Lisa has been working on a number of artists book projects and experimenting with batik on paper, both of which possess some synergy with printmaking.

Lisa has always painted, exploring a variety of media and subjects but the turning point in her artistic development came in 1992 when she joined an evening class in etching at what is now the University of Gloucestershire. Over successive years her commitment to printmaking grew and in 1998 she bought her own press and started working from her basement studio in Cheltenham.

Lisa began to sell her work at first locally and then further afield. In 1999 a significant corporate sale was followed by a small solo exhibition and acceptance onto the AA2A scheme. This scheme, designed to give practicing artists access to art college facilities, enabled Lisa to spend 100 hours in the University studios developing a portfolio of work on barns for a final exhibition early in 2000. Membership of the Cheltenham Artists Group and the Fosseway Artists Group followed, prior to Lisa's relocation to Dumfries and Galloway following redundancy from the Civil Service.