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John Hooper (sculptor)
John Hooper, (1926 – 26 January 2006) was an English-born Canadian sculptor known for his colourful polychromed wood carvings.〔"(Sculptor John Hooper dies )", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 28 January 2006.〕 His works can be found on public display in many locations throughout Canada and worldwide.
==Biography==
Born in England, Hooper also spent time in his youth in China, and served as a captain in the British Army in India in 1944.〔(John Hooper ), City of Vancouver Public Art Registry.〕 Hooper was educated at the Royal College of Art and Bournemouth College of Art (now The Arts Institute at Bournemouth),〔(Public art finds a home at Pilgrim School )", Advertising supplement to Los Angeles Business Journal, 8 July 2002.〕 and studied with sculptor Jacob Epstein.〔〔"(The World of John Hooper )", announcement for a show in the Arts and Culture Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, 19 March 1998, with a brief biographical sketch of Hooper.〕〔(A Tribute to John Hooper ). Bob Hinman, Reflections – A Magazine By and For Retired Teachers, Vol. XXIII, No. 3, Spring 2006.〕 After teaching at the University of Natal in South Africa from 1956 to 1962, he moved to New Brunswick, Canada, where he lived for the rest of his life, for many years working as a school teacher and administrator before devoting himself full-time to art in 1974.〔〔〔
Hooper was married to Kathy, an artist from South Africa who herself won the Strathbutler Award in 1994.〔〔(Artist's statement ), Kathy Hooper, Hooper Studios.〕 With her he had four children〔 and founded Hooper Studios, a centre for art and art education in Hampton, New Brunswick.
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