Jessica Cooper - Silver Gilded Pears

Wonderful acrylic and pencil original Jessica Cooper painting.

Purchased as new in Padstow, Cornwall in 1999. One previous owner.

Great condition. 

20.5cm x 20.5cm - art / 27cm x 27cm - frame

Framed by the artists husband in a nice golden coloured wood

Jessica Cooper (born 1967) is a designer and painter, living in Cornwall, England. She is a Royal West of England Academician and a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

Cooper was born in Bristol and grew up in Cornwall. During 1985 and 1986, Cooper did a foundation course at the Falmouth School of Art. At Goldsmiths College from 1986 to 1989 Cooper earned a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art and Textiles. Cooper coordinated the educational programme for the Newlyn Art Gallery's St. Ives International in 1997. She organised and led the course The Representational to the Abstract at Dartington Hall. Cooper had a solo show at the Newlyn Gallery in 2001 and has featured in several group shows. Her work was featured in the 2007 "Art Now Cornwall" exhibition, at Tate St Ives.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/art-now-cornwall/art-now-cornwall-artists/art-now-cornwall-2

Brought up in Trevowan near Morvah and now living in Pendeen, Jessica Cooper’s works seem to contain within them all the spare, wind-blasted and gloriously weather-worn aspects of those ancient landscapes, down to the simplest of forms. That they do not appear to be paintings about the Cornish landscape but more an idea of still life is both surprising and mysterious.

Cooper has a strong, almost sculptural sense of design, reminiscent particularly of William Scott with whom she shares an affinity for line and categorisation, a graphic feeling for rightness of placement on the canvas surface.

https://rwa.org.uk/artists/jessica-cooper

Like the comic silence that treads a thrilling fine line; the pregnant pause in a bar of music; the short line of poetry that gathers emotion in refrain, Jessica Cooper’s apparent simplicity on canvas is her most courageous and impactful tool .

The temptation might be to call it minimalism, with its implication of stripping away – or simplicity, with its suggestion of naiveté – but more accurately this is mindfulness of art: a honing of awareness; an attentiveness of mind; and an openness to meaning, wherever it might be found.

To watch Cooper at work is to observe a tireless quest for this all-important meaning. As she prepares for a painting in her ever-present sketchbook, she explores and distils the subject until finding what she describes as its ‘core’: the part or parts in which she finds value, essence, emotion, substance or significance, impact or import. Once found, all else falls beyond the borders of the canvas, the noise of life is turned to fade, and she focuses with a rare clarity.

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