Artwork copyright Janette Hopper. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Sunflowers, 1996

Janette Hopper
American (born 1946)

Location: Soap Lake Elementary, Soap Lake

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Sunflowers is a landscape painting by artist Janette Hopper. Fields of sunflowers near Mannheim, Germany, where the artist spent many summers, inspired the imagery. Describing her composition, she notes, “The tiny biking figure on the left gives a sense of scale and life to the painting. People love to walk and ride their bikes out in the countryside in Germany. I wanted to capture the feeling of that particular experience of beauty.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with .

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Janette Hopper is a painter, printmaker, and performance artist. Her art is inspired by the places she has experienced while hiking, camping and kayaking. She lived in the Northwest for over fifteen years and she notes that "Most of my art is still inspired by the Northwest mystical spirit and my education and experiences there." Hopper grew up in Idaho with a lot of camping and fishing trips. In the late 1960s, she left university during the Vietnam War and joined the Peace Corps, spending two years in Colombia, South America. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Secondary Art Education from Boise State University in Idaho, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting (1984) from the University of Oregon. She taught art at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Southeastern Washington from 1985 to 2000. Hopper currently lives and makes art in North Carolina.