'Playing cards in Paris' is an acrylic painting, primarily made up of several shades of blue that highlight the starring vibrant orange. There are 5 figures playing cards. either sat on or leaning against a bed. The scene is flooded with dots of blues, orange, and black, in reference to a shirt chosen by the artist.

Cel Hopkins

3rd Years Students

Cel Hopkins explores the depths of materiality and the power of matter. The artist’s practice revolves around the significance of colour, patterns, and paint, referencing imagery from their personal life. Hopkins’ paintings transport an audience into a world of colour, with abstract figures creating a dream-like reality, simultaneously haunting the image and giving a sense of nostalgia. This is a world drowned in pattern, ones taken from clothing that once held significance; ones given significance again at the artist’s hand.

Colour is important to Hopkins, who finds its simultaneous attraction and repulsion fascinating; it becomes representative of memory, things that can spur on emotions so vastly different yet so fundamentally the same in every person.