A recent correspondent (2013) writes about this artist:

'You might be interested to know that there is a rather beautiful and accomplished reredos in the Art Nouveaux style by her in the Parish Church at Kemerton, Gloucestershire. Her family owned a house there and she is buried in the churchyard.

She belonged to a large and wealthy land-owning family of soldiers, lawyers and clergymen of Herefordshire/ Gloucestershire, ultimately decimated by the 1st WW and early deaths. Perhaps an excess of Christian zeal didn't help - the late clergyman relatives lived to a good age but died without issue.

 Although Gwendoline's surname was Hopton this was because her great grandfather, William Parsons, changed his name to Hopton. This was his mother Deborah's maiden name. The Hoptons owned substantial estates that he inherited including a very grand house at Canon Frome.'

Gwen joined the St Ives artists' colony some time between 1901 and 1910. She was the daughter of Captain Charles Hopton of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 

Packing Fish, St Ives was included in the 2002 Group Show at Penlee House and remains in the Art Collection there. The artist died as a result of a cycling accident near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.