The Writers of Wales Database

HOPKIN, ELIZABETH

Tel: 01792 862290
Email: carolemhopkin@hotmail.com
Website: www.morganhopkin.co.uk.
 

Born in Ystradgynlais, Elizabeth was educated at Maesydderwen County Grammar School. She worked as secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and was a Member of WVS for thirty years. Elizabeth attended Swansea College of Art. Her first major exhibition was at the Portal Gallery, Bond Street in1976. Elizabeth's paintings have featured on the BBC and been bought by UNICEF for greetings cards. Exhibitions followed in New York, Palm Beach, and Los Angeles. Elizabeth now shows her work through the Lucy B. Campbell Gallery, London, and the Albany Gallery, Cardiff. She was exhibited at Wales Artist of the Year, Cardiff 2007 and now lives and works in Pontardawe.

Reviews:

With respect to Then the Sirens Sounded (Gofannon Press 2009)
" Elizabeth's works are a unique chronicle of life within a Welsh mining community. They are painted with great affection." Eric Lister

Selected Publications:
Then the Sirens Sounded (Gofannon Press, 2009)
Butterflies of the Valley (Merton Press, 2012)

Contributed to:
C20th British Naive and Primitive Artists, Eric Lister and Sheldon Williams (contributor) (Astragal Books, 1977)
British Primitive Fantasists, Eric Lister (contributor) (Alpine Fine Arts Collection,1982)
Full Circle, Carole M. Hopkin (contributor) (Gomer, 1995)

 

Then the Sirens Sounded (Gofannon Press, 2009)

Elizabeth's paintings and text evoke life in the Swansea Valley during the Twenties and Thirties. Stories tell of the annual carnivals, miners' strikes, cinema queues, Josef Herman, the making of the Silent Village by Humphrey Jennings, and the visiting Romanies. The paintings bring to life these special decades between the two World Wars when life could be traumatic and romantic.

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Butterflies of the Valley (Merton Press, 2012)

Continuing the story of life in the Welsh valleys during the second World War and up to the fifties with vibrant illustrations of events and characters which coloured those difficult times.

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