Reflecting Images
Jessica Cooper
Jessica Cooper Reflecting Images 4 – 30 May 2020
Belgrave St Ives 22 Fore Street, St Ives Cornwall TR26 1HE
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Catalogue cover: Reflecting Images / 2020 Acrylic and pen on canvas / 81 x 86.5 cm £3,200
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Artist Notes The paintings in this exhibition are informed by three specific places and periods of time. A number of the works are executed on canvas – a support and surface with which I am familiar – representing safety, in a certain sense. The others employ wood panels – something of a voyage into the unknown – leading to experimentation and the highlighting of a certain abstraction in the work. These latter works are left unframed, imbuing them with a sense of freedom, breathing space and a lack of restriction. These important qualities are echoed thematically in the subject matter of some of the paintings. The abstracted trapezoid shape that appears in a number of the works originates in a section of a bridge / walkway leading to a beach on the Los Angeles coast. Like the bridge, the shape represents a link, and can thus be found reappearing in paintings regardless of the particular subject. Other objects or shapes in the works have become more isolated, in one sense, or perhaps connected by the space between them, in another. My usual colour palette has shifted to become more limited and muted, with subtle tones and the exploration of different shades, in particular yellows, pinks and browns, which are broadly new to me. Using drawings, photographs and memories, these works have taken a longer time to execute than formerly, using thought, reflection and the re-reading of contemporaneous notes to take myself back to specific times and places, and then using the resulting feelings to create a new sense of purpose and calmness in the work; perhaps an authority, even.
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It’s the Simple Things / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 61 x 61 cm £2,500 4
Intertwine / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 76 x 81 cm £3,000 5
Pill Dish / 2020
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Pot of Gold / 2019
Acrylic and pencil on wood panel / 15 x 15 cm
Acrylic on wood panel / 45.5 x 45.5 cm
£600
£1,400
In Splendid Isolation / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 61 x 61 cm £2,500 7
Linked Forms, Tate St Ives / 2020
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Something More / 2020
Acrylic and pen on wood panel / 15 x 15 cm
Acrylic on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm
£600
£950
Talking to You / 2020 Acrylic on wood panel / 28 x 35.5 cm £950 9
When You Simply Know / 2020
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Air and Space and Knowing that I Love You / 2020
Acrylic and pencil on wood panel / 28 x 35.5 cm
Acrylic on canvas / 61 x 61 cm
£950
£2,500
To Remember / 2020 Acrylic and pencil on canvas / 61 x 61 cm £2,500 11
No one has ever called me sophisticated before / 2019 Acrylic and varnish on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm ÂŁ950 12
Blue Chip / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 76 x 81 cm £3,000 13
The Days of Innocence / 2020 Acrylic and pencil on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm £950 14
Things from the Kitchen / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 81 x 86.5 cm £3,200 15
Yes / 2019 Acrylic and pencil on wood panel / 15 x 15 cm £600 16
Sunday Mornings / 2020 Acrylic on canvas / 61 x 61 cm £2,500 17
Inside 22 Friend Avenue / 2020 Acrylic on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm £950 18
Time Slips Away in an Endless Line of Days / 2020 Acrylic on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm £950 19
Familiar Space / 2020
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Life in Abstraction / 2019
Acrylic and pen on wood panel / 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Acrylic and varnish on wood panel / 25.5 x 25.5 cm
£950
£850
Do you know how much I love you? Yes. / 2020 Acrylic and pen on wood panel / 20.5 x 20.5 cm £700 21
Jessica Cooper RWA
Born: 1967
2018
New York Art Fair, Edgar Modern, USA Postcard Auction, RWA, Bristol
Studied
London Art Fair, Edgar Modern, London
1986–1989 Goldsmiths College
Members Shows, Penwith Gallery, Cornwall
1985–1986 Falmouth School of Art
Selected Biography
Auction, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dorset 2017
165 Annual, RWA, Bristol
2015–2020 Mentor – individual practice
Summer Show, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
2014–2020 Tutor, Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall 2016
Elected, full member, Penwith Society of Arts
2007
Elected RWA Academician, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1995
Elected, full member, Newlyn Society of Artists
London Art Fair, Edgar Modern, London
N.O.A.C in collaboration with Art Rooms, selected work, Melia White House, London 2016
165 Annual, RWA, Bristol AAF Battersea, Edgar Modern, London AAF Hampstead, Edgar Modern, London
Recent Solo Exhibitions
Members Shows, Penwith Gallery, Cornwall
2020
Reflecting Images, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
Tutors Touring Show, Newlyn School of Art,
2019
Introducing the New, Edgar Modern, London
Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2018
The Intimate Landscape, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
London Art Fair, Edgar Modern, London
2017 2016
It Doesn’t Take Much to Make Me Happy,
AAF New York, Edgar Modern, USA
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
The Landscape, Edgar Modern, Bath
The View from Here, Edgar Modern, Bath
Modern and Contemporary, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
…But Plastic is Beautiful, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
Collections
One Divided by Two, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
St Enodoc Hotel, Cornwall
Recent Group Exhibitions 2020
London Art Fair, Edgar Modern, London Member Shows, Penwith Gallery, Cornwall
2019
167 Annual, RWA, Bristol
Kestle Barton, Cornwall Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange, Cornwall Art Collection, publications Cornwall Council Libraries, Cornwall The Hypatia Trust, Cornwall
Singapore Art Fair, Edgar Modern, Singapore Royal West of England Academy, Bristol The Art for Life Project, West Hollywood, USA
Slaughter and May, London
New York Art Fair, Edgar Modern, USA Gallery Artist, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall 22
Tremenheere Artists, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
For full CV please visit the gallery website.
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