"One of the great qualities of Hopkins' new paintings, as I see them, is to
have abandoned the particularly English problem of whether abstract
art needs to be in some painterly relation to landscape. He has decided
that it would be better to avoid the term entirely. On the contrary, it
is through recollections of Dalí, Miró, even Picasso, that the artist has
remembered how the sun can sharpen the shadows, heat the landscape,
and probably addle the brains. Are we madder or saner now? It makes
no difference. In Hopkins' new world, it is advisable to try for both."

Brandon Taylor, 2012