Bio Angelica Hopton Echenique (b. 2000): Image

Angelica Hopton Echenique (b. 2000)

Angelica Hopton is an Anglo-Chilean artist who mainly specialises in portraiture. Through her portraits, she aims to ‘capture the subject’s individual essence and soul’ by harmonising expressive brushstrokes with a minute precision in technique.

Angelica has recently trained at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, learning traditional, realist techniques. In 2018, she studied fine art at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Angelica is currently studying Natural Sciences at Durham University, with a particular interest in psychology. She brings psychological theory into her portraiture, developing layered character-studies in paint with a critical, psychoanalytical lens. Alongside her academic degree, Angelica is a fully commissioned artist, completing 15 commissions over the last year. She uses her Instagram page (angelica_hopton_art), link below, as a platform to share her work with others.

Angelica’s work is greatly influenced by her experiences of different cultures abroad. She is an avid traveller and often incorporates local styles into her painting in thematically relevant ways. Time spent in Qatar and Iran, for instance, inspired a series of portraits exploring the empowerment, freedom, and oppression of women. Extensive time spent in Tuscany has been particularly influential in the creation of her more recent landscape pieces, including Looking West off Baratti and Lemons - two paintings that feature in ‘The Back Room’!

Exhibitions and Commissions