Willow worked as an assistant art teacher for youth at the Visual Arts Center in West Mount, has a Fine Arts Diploma from Dawson College, DEC (Diplome en Education Collégiale), and studied Environmental Biodiversity and Conservation at McGill University.
Willow holds great reverence for her subject matter, and with the forest as her muse, she finds beauty and sees paintings in unlikely places. Willow’s artwork speaks to her deep desire to share with viewers a more meaningful and personal connection with nature. Whether painting a wolf, a songbird, or a tangle of leaves and branches, she considers her work to be a type of portraiture; her goal being to capture the essence of an animal or often overlooked area of underbrush or new growth in the forest. She seeks to immortalize those creatures and places that present themselves to her, knowing that the natural world is constantly in a state of flux and that beauty is ever changing and evolving.
Willow Hopkins 