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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 1d

Lodge, Ash Crescent, Headingley
This lodge is interesting because it was moved from its original location on North Lane in 1908, and rebuilt (still as a lodge) 100 yards away. The lodge was originally built to serve two houses, Headingley House and Headingley Lodge, both of them now demolished.

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 3d

This is my painting ‘Sycamore’, from last summer, which will be part of the show

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 3d

I’m very pleased to be part of this group exhibition at Gage Gallery, Kelham Island, Sheffield, starting next Saturday 11th - thank you to curators Ruth Heaton and @seanwilliamsartist.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of it
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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 4d

There’s more info on my website - if you’re interested in a copy please email me - address on website (I can’t use direct messaging here on Bluesky)
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Jonathan Hooper - Zine

Gingerbread Lodges I have a limited edition zine available with my paintings of the Victorian gatehouses in Headingley, along with a few of my photos. Price is £10 plus £1.80 GB postage. If you woul...

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 4d

I have copies available of a limited edition zine, with my paintings from this year of the Victorian gatehouses in Headingley

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 5d

In progress in the studio - lodge for Headingley House, Headingley, Leeds

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 7d

Lodge: St Ann’s Tower, Kirkstall Lane, Headingley

A small stone building, easily missed, but if you get the train to Headingley station for the rugby or the cricket, you’ll walk past it.

Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 61 cm

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 8d

Ideally if there was something like the books in Phaidon’s Vitamin series - but even something smaller with a particular focus would be interesting

Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 8d

Can anyone recommend a book covering contemporary #printmaking ? There’s lots of exciting stuff going on, but I’ve not managed to find any recent surveys or catalogues.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 9d

'Sherry Bar Portrait', Ravenscourt Arms, Hammersmith (c.1964) by Ruskin Spear

(Private collection)

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 9d

Lodge: Kirkstall Grange
This lodge, at the junction of Otley Road and St Chads Drive (which leads up to Beckett University) is one of my favourites, because it exhibits perfectly the classic features of the genre - small, with tall elaborate chimneys, and steep roofs with carved bargeboards.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10d

Halifax, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt.

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 14d

In progress. I’m happy with this composition because it demonstrates just how small this lodge is, and puts it in the context of the sort of building I more usually paint.

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Alexis Butterfield @takealineforawalk.bsky.social · 16d

“Goodison Park”
Acrylic and crayon over monotype
2025
55cm x 39cm

This part of Everton was saved from the planners’ wrecking ball and I was rather moved by the long lines of terraced houses, each ending in the walls of the stadium - wrapped with huge photos of the club’s players. #art

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 17d

In progress this morning - lodge for St Ann’s Tower, on Kirkstall Lane in Headingley, Leeds

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17d

Hebden Bridge in the snow, 1978, photo by Denis Thorpe.

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 19d

A pair of paintings recently finished - lodges for Fox Hill and Spenfield.
Weetwood, Leeds.
Acrylic on canvas.

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 19d

‘Saturday sun, Sunday rain’
A pair of paintings from December 2023
Oil on board, 46 x 61 cm each

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Alexis Butterfield @takealineforawalk.bsky.social · 20d

“Another World”
17-29 September
Everyman Theatre Liverpool

My first solo exhibition is now open at the Everyman Theatre, in their 1st floor exhibition space. Please do come and see it if you are able.

All the work is available to buy, and prices for originals start at £220. #liverpool #art

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 22d

A pair of paintings from two years ago - shops in Headingley, Leeds - the backs and the fronts of the same shops
Oil on board, 61 x 91 cm each

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 23d

Two paintings in progress this morning - lodges in Weetwood, Leeds

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 24d

Painting in progress - lodge built for Spenfield, on Otley Road, Weetwood, Leeds

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 25d

'Timber Yard, Leeds.' (c1915) Urban subjects were Charles Ginner's special contribution to the language of the Camden Town Group of painters - it represented a determined effort by painters to explore new ways of representing the everyday realities of life in Edwardian Britain.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25d

Our inland waterways are green and blue corridors, winding quietly often through industrial and urban landscapes. Once the very arteries of the Industrial Revolution, they now offer something gentler: an escape. Just a stone’s throw from bustling towns

Our inland waterways are green and blue corridors, winding quietly through industrial and urban landscapes. Once the very arteries of the Industrial Revolution, they now offer something gentler: an escape. Just a stone’s throw from bustling towns and cities, they can feel like worlds apart.

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Jonathan Hooper @hooperpainter.bsky.social · 26d

This is on canvas but I tinted it with a transparent green gesso first - I like working on a tinted ground. I do sometimes work on a tinted paper too when I’m doing watercolours

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