Pink Ladies
oil on canvas
6 x 6 inches
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Dana Hooper, a fourth generation Bay Area native, paints on location in rural Marin and Sonoma counties in a style inspired by California's Society of Six and the Bay Area Figurative artists. In her larger studio paintings, she reinterprets the plein air images in an expanded and often simplified motif.
Employing brushes and palette knife, she paints the places, the animals and the light with which she is deeply familiar and closely connected. Hooper takes an intuitive approach — no preliminary sketches, but rather a spontaneous convergence of paint, canvas and spirit. Risk-taking is crucial to keeping the work alive.
"Once I'm out on location, I look for something that opens the door, that gets the painting started, and I just go from there," she says. "They come from where I've grown up, what I've lived through, and how I've felt about it. When a painting has personality, a certain energy, it feels complete."
Portfolio of recent paintings
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