Eileen Cooper RA – Longing

A curated online selection of prints by EILEEN COOPER RA to buy online and add to your collection today

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

Eileen Cooper, Of Womanhood Cats and Beasts.

In this collection of prints and drawings Eileen Cooper celebrates womanhood with the female figure a constant presence in her work. The woman is often accompanied by a symbolic companion: a cat and more exotic beasts of the circus and mythologies.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Eileen Cooper’s themes are both personal and universal, often referencing mythology, with its protagonist symbolic of universal truths: love, relationships, vanity, vulnerability. The human figure remains a constant presence in her work often accompanied by a symbolic companion: a cat, a tiger, a ladder, a boat. More recently a return to drawing from life has underpinned a parallel body if work with drawings of those who have touched her life and long celebrated career both as a painter and printmaker.

Eileen Cooper has had a long and celebrated career both as a painter and printmaker, with themes both personal and universal. Her work is in many museum collections, including, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, The Royal Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, Walpole Library Yale University,  Dallas Museum of Art.

Elected Royal Academician 2000 and Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts 2010-2017She was awarded OBE 2016 and was made Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and of Murray Edwards College University of Cambridge

THIS PRINT IS PART OF THE FOLIO 25 SET

Folio 25 comprises sixteen fine art prints by sixteen

UK–based artists. LINK TO FOLIO 25 SET

https://rableygallery.com/shop/artists/folio-25-set/