Dana Hooper

Funny Farm

24" x 24" oil

$2,400

"I paint outdoors in a style that is spontaneous and expressive. The motifs are colorist, intimate views of timeless subjects: animals, figures, rustic structures and landscapes.
In my paintings there is often an idiosyncratic element, unexpected details or perspective - the picture may not be logical but it reads right. The paint surface is both thick and thin; the brushwork and palette knife strokes are deliberately visible and sometimes have a rough or unfinished look. Everything reminds you that this is a painting, a fusion of form, color and texture."

Dana Hooper is one of the Bay Area's outstanding plein-air artists whose exuberant and colorful style represents all the freshness and spontaneity of working outdoors, directly from a subject.

Dana has exhibited widely in Marin and the Bay Area.

Loner

8" x 10" oil

$900

Freestone Silo

8" x 10" oil

$900

6 am 36" x 40" oil $3,600
Paint 12" x 16" oil $1,400
Bonded 8" x 10" oil $900
Mutual 7" x 9" oil $800
Nicasio Chapel 8" x 10" oil $900
Spring Horses 11" x 14" oil $1,200
Collected Cow 8" x 10" oil $900
Turquoise Barn 8" x 10" oil $900
Salt Box 8" x 10" oil $900
Cool Moon Morning 8" x 10" oil $900
Contiguous 6" x 6" oil $500
Twins 6" x 6" oil $500
Hill Patrol 8" x 10" oil $900
Happy Hen 5" x 6" oil $450
Taneyuki Flock 8" x 10" oil $900
Butternut 6" x 6" oil sold
August Shed 16" x 20" oil
Tiger 6" x 6" oil $500	Teens 6" x 6" oil sold

"Dana is a strong example of the modern return to plein air painting. Her work is spontaneous and expressive with a striking use of color. She paints intimate views of rural subjects--buildings, animals, landscapes--in a way that portrays their "innocence" and her love of them. I like a sentence she once said to me: 'My works are an escape from gentrification and technology, a respect for the simple.' "There's a freedom to her brush strokes and I agree with a prominent collector who once told me: 'She's not derivative. She takes the California School (of figurative painting) in a new direction. It's a signature type of work.'" Bud Johns
Back to the Barn 11" x 14" oil sold