Eileen Cooper RA – Longing

$650*

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In Longing, a young woman sits in the early morning light with her companion, the cat. The scene is imbued with a playful curiosity and quiet humour. Cooper’s cool palette invokes the gentle chill of dawn before the sun arrives, yet the warmth of the woman’s body glows with a delicate presence, capturing a fleeting moment of anticipation as the day begins.

Eileen Cooper explores themes both personal and universal. Her richly diverse images, simultaneously bold and tender, reveal a range of feeling that is deeply engrossing and readily accessible, yet still very much part of contemporary art practice. Throughout her career, Cooper’s work has contained autobiographical elements, however her vision is always more allegorical than anecdotal, her concerns and experiences as relevant and timeless as those of the human spirit itself.

In the 1980s Cooper became recognised as a major British painter and printmaker. Her work is held in collections including: (London, UK) Tate; National Portrait Gallery; The British Museum; The Royal Collection; The Victoria and Albert Museum; (UK) The Hepworth Wakefield; (DE) Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; (USA) The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; Dallas Museum of Art.  She was elected as Royal Academician in 2000 and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2010 to 2017. Cooper was awarded an OBE in 2016 and became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.