https://www.suzannecooper.org/about-1 daily 0.75 2022-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502519313206-9VCMGA9SGTVBFQS844QH/lumley+blomfield+terrace.jpg ABOUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519830024671-8BJ682OXL2FSEL8NT8SK/IMG_0286.JPG ABOUT - 1930 Aged fourteen, on the beach with her father https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502519734930-C3D88YXQO493GVWK3T87/SC+passport.jpg ABOUT - 1933 Suzanne Cooper in 1933, when she was seventeen years old and about to join the Grosvenor School of Modern Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519830239283-E0VFQ8TFTYQFHP5044US/IMG_0290.JPG ABOUT - 1935 On a cruise ship in the Caribbean with her mother https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519831120309-VRSTR7XR8BLJU0LOV3WO/IMG_0293-2.JPG ABOUT - 1940 Wartime wedding - marrying Michael Franklin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519832241814-SIRYN039BU1G72SA5HOC/IMG_0283-2.JPG ABOUT https://www.suzannecooper.org/about-2 daily 0.75 2017-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501780014420-ECG2UHJ56BOQLN8XT20D/lumley+blomfield+terrace.jpg Copy of ABOUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501781782355-SKHFWLZ6H55Q5UXO696H/image-asset.jpeg Copy of ABOUT - Suzanne Cooper   1916 - 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501781966915-OM4BMLJTW7T3SHSWI7X0/image-asset.jpeg Copy of ABOUT https://www.suzannecooper.org/new-page daily 1.0 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501778898671-35H5LJOE9Z9H8WMAVTZU/1948_7_9+2012.08.27-2.jpg HOME https://www.suzannecooper.org/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501996440000-1GS97PIY2QYLHRAGUJXE/brightlingsea+my+photo.jpg Wood Engravings etc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1501841546665-D6O45LR9KN6OW7ZQ95SO/brightlingsea+my+photo.jpg Wood Engravings etc - Brightlingsea Brightlingsea is a seaside town in Essex, not far from Suzanne Cooper’s childhood hometown of Frinton. She would have known the place well when it was still a bustling fishing port. The strong verticals of the foreground figures stabilise a composition typical of Cooper’s dynamic handling of space. Sea and land swirl together beneath a high horizon. Houses tilt: steamboats and horses hurry. Waves and clouds echo each others curves. With its abundance of detail, and great variety of marks, the image demonstrates Cooper’s remarkable inventive energy £245 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515688187228-3CEZWAV4PU6Z41D1IV63/fog.jpg Wood Engravings etc - Fog wood engraving 23 cms x 20 cms Several of Cooper’s contemporaries at the Grosvenor School in the 1930s were making lino-cuts under the tutelage of Claud Flight, in a style strongly influenced by Vorticist and Futurist art. This wood-engraving displays a similar aesthetic. A night-time street scene, full of modernist imagery of motorcars and electric lighting, becomes an almost abstract composition. Tantalisingly, the catalogue for a group show at the Wertheim Gallery in 1937 lists an oil painting by Suzanne Cooper also entitled ‘Fog’. At least a dozen of her paintings were sold during the 1930s: their present whereabouts are now unknown. £245 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502595161958-OW3UDM1YEHA04MV4HSOK/image-asset.jpeg Wood Engravings etc - The Carol Singers wood engraving 17 cms x 19 cms Despite its cosily reassuring title, this enigmatic image is full of drama. Is the woman on the left singing, or crying for help? Are the men sharing a carol-sheet, or is one comforting the other? Why is the woman at the window apparently so distraught? £195 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515687751938-GTQQJT4YI9DYCBNUX5MQ/IMG_0163.JPG Wood Engravings etc - The Falcon, Uppingham wood-engraving 19 cms x 16 cms The Falcon, was and still is, a popular inn in Rutland’s Uppingham. In this roofscape, seen from a bedroom window, Cooper creates a complex pattern of rectangular roofs and walls, charmingly framed by the curves of curtain and pot-plant, beneath one of her characteristic high horizons. £195 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515688541841-FFPKJR1DFV9LMVA549PW/IMG_0164.JPG Wood Engravings etc - The Busman's Holiday wood engraving 14 cms x 18 cms A domestic scene infused with vitality by the tilting lines and gesticulating figures. Even the cat is on the alert. £195 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515689518212-0I94V41KH49ITXPJU2W6/IMG_0168.JPG Wood Engravings etc - Back Gardens wood engraving 10.5 x 14 cms Iain Macnab inscribed a copy of his book on wood-engraving to Cooper, with the words ‘From one wood-pecker to another’. This small image, with its complex geometry and wonderful variety of marks, demonstrates her remarkable command of the difficult medium. £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515689806503-7WZMJ7SDVIPAFNJB1SPL/IMG_0169.JPG Wood Engravings etc - Thames Boat line block print 11 x 14 cms This line-block print is a simplified version of the oil painting of the same name. £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515690050216-GKGQR4UBR8RBBKRIUGTW/IMG_0170.JPG Wood Engravings etc - The House in the Wood wood engraving 8 x 11 cms Looking like the hidden house of a fairy-tale, this is actually a depiction of Cooper’s childhood home, Budleigh House on 2nd Avenue in the Essex seaside resort of Frinton. £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1518245820966-86MVLWHWUOYN58GDNKEO/factory+chimneys+upside+down.jpg Wood Engravings etc - Chimneys wood engraving 8 x 10 cms This townscape strongly recalls the work of Suzanne Cooper’s mentor, Ian Macnab, master wood-engraver and founder of the Grosvenor School. £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519276988112-OEWS6DFLN88JZI1AA4KV/butterflies.jpg Wood Engravings etc - Tropical Butterflies Wood engraving 14 x 14 cms Another memento of Cooper’s Caribbean cruise. In later life she made a number of cushions, embroidered in petit point to her own designs. Several of them include butterfly motifs. £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1531307028527-EGFOGJRLY3H2FO63KNHN/carol+singers+II.jpg Wood Engravings etc - Carol Singers II Wood engraving 4.2 x 2.97 cms An image closely related to the wood-engraving 'Carol Singers I' Cooper’s ability to produce fine work on such a tiny scale is all the more remarkable for the fact that her eyesight was terrible. She never took her glasses off, even on her wedding day. As a young girl, bicycling through Frinton, she once rode down a policeman, mistaking him for a bollard. £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1546766054762-RAX1II6Z6WQ6Y9GF17ES/IMG_0348.JPG Wood Engravings etc - SCRAPERBOARD This tiny image is one of a number of scraperboards Cooper made while at the Grosvenor School. https://www.suzannecooper.org/oil-paintings daily 0.75 2018-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542526692245-231A732REHRO39DQ16LB/royal+albion.jpg Paintings Royal Albion 1936 (oil on canvas) In 1948 this painting was given to the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, by the influential patron and collector Lucy Carringon Wertheim. It hangs there alongside works by Christopher Wood and Alfred Wallis - artists with whose work Cooper's has much in common. Mary Kisler (Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, Auckland Art Gallery) writes: 'Suzanne Cooper was one of the burgeoning artists taken under the wing of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, who had herself been encouraged by Frances Hodgkins to set up a modern art gallery. This delightful depiction of the Royal Albion hotel shows a familiar English seaside view. Painted during her time at the Grosvenor School of Art, the artist incorporates the simplified blocks of form and colour popular with other modernist painters in the 1920s and 30s. Royal Albion shows similarity in handling to the works of both Christopher Wood and Eric Ravilious in its lively combination of architectural forms and daily activities. Cooper’s animated brushstrokes and scumbled surfaces capture the scudding grey clouds and flapping flags blown by the onshore wind. Small boats are drawn up on the beach within the sheltering arms of the wooden groynes, and one can sense the roll and roar of the sea, as horses delicately make their way along the incline of the foreshore.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502593867284-Y4VRYNSMWPN5VKY2UBVC/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - The Cat Girl Shown with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Wood Engravers oil on canvas 50 x 40 cms One of several paintings of girls or very young women, each with an edge of eerie surrealism. Girl and kittens gaze at the viewer with disconcertingly similar eyes. Suzanne Cooper's family remark that the girl's strongly arched eyebrows and the double curve of her hairline make this a disguised portrait of Michael Franklin, Cooper's husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502526812115-7NZ8YC47DZYHLOX5VT9M/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Appledore Appledore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1504508089243-VD4KXIZ31DWKE76RQPO8/street+scene.jpg Paintings Street Scene During the 1930s Cooper’s mentor at the Grosvenor School, Iain Macnab, used to take favoured students on painting holidays in the Pyrenees. This lively continental scene may have been painted as the result of such a trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1503125435998-5LKZ98YGRNJA2E93SBXG/horse.jpg Paintings - The Yellow Horse Suzanne Cooper included horses in several of her pictures but, as far as her family know, she was never a horsewoman. The initials on this one’s blanket are those of her husband-to-be, Michael Franklin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1503127509658-DEFGG20AH2YPNRR8SVH9/edt_lucy8.jpg Paintings Brixham Harbour Brixham is another Devon port that Cooper visited when holidaying with her grandparents. It is telling that the painter in the lower left of the picture is male, a reminder of how hard it was for women of Cooper’s generation to identify themselves as artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1503126326719-299OCC4T8DE6SKS71WIB/lumley+blomfield+terrace.jpg Paintings - Bloomfield Terrace One of the very few works by Suzanne Cooper to have passed through the auction rooms. This lively street scene was offered for sale at Bonhams in 2004 and bought by John Lumley, then Director of Twentieth Century Paintings at Christie's. Bloomfield Terrace is in Pimlico, near to the Grosvenor School. A pretty street of Victorian houses, it is still remarkable for the striped awnings over the windows and doors. Signed lower left, signed again and dated 1936 on the back of the canvas, oil on canvas, 24 by 20ins. Provenance: Lucy Carrington Wertheim, London (inscribed Property of LCW on the back of the frame) Exhibited London, Wertheim Gallery, Paintings and Watercolours by Rachel Reckitt, Jose Christopherson, Suzanne Cooper, Barbara Heale, Sept.- Oct. 1936, no.24 (priced at 8gns.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1503126664386-W58EC4JYOB44YCYGL9MH/renwick+coals.jpg Paintings Renwick Coals Cooper’s harbour-scenes show the influence of Christopher Wood, a near-contemporary whose work she admired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1503596226769-YF0F27RGREKCGOZJ601K/IMG_1286.JPG Paintings - Girl with Doll Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cms Another of Suzanne Cooper’s haunting pictures of young girls. Lily of the valley was her favourite flower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1504506539422-H0AZELDCIIPEDJ2R5J89/still+life.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1515834217698-A31KJ9WGOXMI6RQ3L2LR/20180111_132132-2.jpg Paintings - Man Sitting oil painting 51 cm x 40 cm Property of Regan Bevons, The picture was recently given to Regan Bevons by her friend, the dealer Andrew Colcombe, a partner in Gable Contemporary, specialising in modern and contemporary art. Colcombe acquired the painting in 2014 in Switzerland from the artist Jose Christopherson, shortly before her 100th birthday. Christopherson and Suzanne Cooper exhibited work together in a group show at the Wertheim Gallery in 1936. Jose Christopherson was married to another artist, Richard Weisbrod who died in 1991. Weisbrod came from a wealthy Swiss silk manufacturing family and came over to England in 1930, where he settled in Darwen, Lancashire and set up a silk manufacturing business. He held some joint shows with L. S. Lowry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519823503872-LDCCGLUDVSLIPSZOBTKA/IMG_0279.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519825286264-A4WI5Y9OU23JE9XX62C9/IMG_0281.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1519825686978-Y99SNM9M0KLN5IQFAZTK/IMG_0282.JPG Paintings - The Pink House oil on canvas, 26 x 31 cms, Exhibited with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Wood Engravers 1947 This small picture was to prove the first of a series of similar images. After she stopped painting in oils Cooper produced several pastels showing four-square houses juxtaposed with wind-swept trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542482932541-S8IQ0AG8I3UJNSHOG7H3/IMG_0597-3.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542485059853-CIKRJGJ08OCEQSS1BKPW/IMG_0603-3.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542482120788-TQM5KOEGH64YLN3U73AF/IMG_0598-2.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542482568375-PJJT775AX9HNLIESPFM4/IMG_0601-3.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542527445040-EDEMGWEQVZ8IIGTJK9LC/IMG_0618.JPG Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542527633778-6XIEM80S87IVCGDNV30Y/IMG_0605.JPG Paintings https://www.suzannecooper.org/contact daily 0.75 2019-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1502518233566-16Y433QL8M0SJLVTJUVK/IMG_1272-2.JPG CONTACT https://www.suzannecooper.org/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2018-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1521723126526-BUR5WLKJEC7OI1RF4E59/IMG_0321.JPG PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1527587555483-QZKT7FW4ZDJ674U9X6Y1/IMG_0438.JPG PRESS https://www.suzannecooper.org/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542521246165-FX02NP7U30GB2XR3UJAO/Travellers+Pyrennes.jpg LOST WORKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542525864239-ZIL6AYABQ7U9Q5RSD790/IMG_0615.JPG LOST WORKS - The Birdcage oil on board 10 x 12 inches charcoal on paper 10 x 12 inches This painting and the accompanying drawing belong to John and Lorna Harbottle, who purchased them from a sale of the collection of Lucy Wertheim. The picture is unsigned, but it seems likely that it is ‘The Birdcage’, exhibited by Suzanne Cooper at the Wertheim Gallery in 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1542525400287-JDNPNGPDJANS5TP20L1G/IMG_0616.JPG LOST WORKS https://www.suzannecooper.org/exhibitions daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1543395739662-UNOOA9NXN6TD2JNK3ND2/1948_7_9+2012.08.27-2.jpg EXHIBITIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1543494125067-QTCJ7QM7ABGC2U2LB99W/brightlingsea+my+photo.jpg EXHIBITIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1543496346325-1DBKMI33GX8CFSN75V0I/still+life.jpg EXHIBITIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597a5f86e6f2e1264335835b/1543496452410-PEN2SF0H2DZKLK1E0EC4/editedlucy-1a.jpg EXHIBITIONS