George Hooper was a British artist who worked in a unique style informed by Fauvism and the Bloomsbury Group although his style varied greatly throughout his long career.
[1] Hooper was born on 10 September 1910 in Gorakphur, India and died on 18 July 1994 in Surrey, England.
[2] During World War II He was invited to join Kenneth Clark’s Recording Britain scheme as one of a small group of artists commissioned to create works that would, “...boost morale by celebrating the country’s natural beauty and architectural heritage”.
[1] He spent most of his later life in Redhill in Surrey painting largely independently of any school or group of artists.
[2] He married Joyce Katherine Hooper MBE (who later founded Surrey Opera) in 1941.