New solo exhibitions launch by Louise Ventris and Jonathan Hooper

You are warmly invited to the opening of our new exhibitions, Between One Moment and the Next by Louise Ventris and The Colour of Place by Jonathan Hooper, on Friday 5 June from 19:00 to 21:00. 

Thoughtful, emotive urban paintings. Louise Ventris & Jonathan Hooper continue the theme of paintings of real urban spaces and places at Cupola Gallery. 

Between One Moment and the Next by Louise Ventris 

The Colour of Place by Jonathan Hooper 

Friday Opening: 5th June, 19:00-21:00pm

Cupola Gallery, 178a Middlewood Road Sheffield S6 1TD

Main exhibitions: 6th June – 4th July 

Opening times: Monday – Saturday 10-6pm 

The Colour of Place by Jonathan Hooper 

Leeds made glorious in distinctive colour palettes to evoke memory and the intangible ‘feel’ of an area. Jonathan Hooper depicts his adopted home in a way that makes the area feel as though you are seeing it with fresh eyes and re-looking and re-evaluating buildings or places you might have considered beneath your notice. 

For the last fifteen years, Jonathan’s exclusive subject has been the domestic architecture of Leeds. The paintings in this exhibition show places within a short walk of his home in Headingley. 

Between One Moment and the Next by Louise Ventris 

Between One Moment and the Next brings together paintings grounded in observation yet charged with atmosphere. 

Louise Ventris works in liminal zones, caught in traffic she reflects on the ‘dead time’ lost on school runs, commutes and traffic jams. Her oil paintings are built up and scraped back until a balance is struck that straddles the divide between abstraction and depicting a specific scene or event through the expressive use of paint, colour and mark making. 

Louise transforms fleeting shifts in light into something almost cinematic. Vehicles pushing through urban streets become metaphors for the journeys we make, carrying both solitude and the quiet pressure of time. 

“Two fabulous painters with distinctive work but with a shared interest in the connections we have and make in our urban environments. There is a silent strength of feeling in Jonathan’s red brick terraced houses, footpaths, railings and hedges. Whereas there is a disquieting dynamism in the light trails and glowing red tail lights of static or moving cars or traffic lights in the work of Louise Ventris. These paintings make you want to spend time with them. They hint at unknown stories or histories and keep your attention via their layers of paint, range of techniques and use of colour. Two wonderful exhibitions.” Karen Sherwood, Director.