Description
What looks like a quiet canoe trip in Adventurer actually began much closer to home. The painting was part of Denise Hopkins’s 2022 31 in 31 series and was inspired by her youngest son paddling a canoe through their front yard after a heavy rain left it flooded.
With broad, expressive strokes of blue, green, lavender, and earthy neutrals, an ordinary flooded yard becomes a landscape made for exploring. The small figure in the canoe captures something familiar about childhood—the ability to turn an unexpected circumstance into an adventure.
Read the Studio Note behind Adventurer here



