Suzanne Cooper: Rediscovery of a Forgotten Artist
In 1935, when she was a 19 year-old student, Suzanne Cooper was already showing in West End galleries and being singled out by critics as an 鈥榦utstanding鈥� young artist.
In the next four years she produced over thirty oil paintings and a dozen wood-engravings, all of them distinguished by the striking originality of her vision. Her career was interrupted by World War II, and then by marriage and motherhood. She laid aside her artistic ambitions and stowed her canvasses under the spare-room bed. The art-world forgot her. She died in 1992.
In 2018 her work was rediscovered, with a solo show at the Fry Art Gallery greeted by reviewers as 鈥榬evelatory鈥�. Her strange, charming, gently surreal paintings have been likened to Christopher Wood鈥檚, and her beautifully-executed engravings to Eric Ravilious鈥檚.&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;
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In 1935, when she was a 19 year-old student, Suzanne Cooper was already showing in West End galleries and being singled out by critics as an 鈥榦utstanding鈥� young artist.
In the next four years she produced over thirty oil paintings and a dozen wood-engravings, all of them distinguished by the striking originality of her vision. Her career was interrupted by World War II, and then by marriage and motherhood. She laid aside her artistic ambitions and stowed her canvasses under the spare-room bed. The art-world forgot her. She died in 1992.
In 2018 her work was rediscovered, with a solo show at the Fry Art Gallery greeted by reviewers as 鈥榬evelatory鈥�. Her strange, charming, gently surreal paintings have been likened to Christopher Wood鈥檚, and her beautifully-executed engravings to Eric Ravilious鈥檚.&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;
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