GEORGIA HOPKINS
The serene artist and her non-Manx tail-less cat Zach
By Lynda Cookson
What a good thing I’ve had many years practice searching for and finding Easter eggs! Georgia Hopkins, serene watercolour artist, has hidden herself well, in a lovely old house down a skinny little lane in the suburbs of Cork. But I found her. Finally.
In her big, old sitting room with a cosy fire burning, we looked out over her little-bird’s eye view of Cork. A big bird would have got a clearer view but a little bird gets the atmospheric view, and that’s what Georgia can see from her window. How amazingly peaceful it was, although set back only a few metres from the frenetic traffic. The setting was a little like Georgia herself, who is part of the action, part of the Cork art scene, and yet independent and calmly out of the hullabaloo.
