Michael Cooper NEAC

Statement

The Pathetic Fallacy

We create myths and metaphors to live by. In painting and the arts generally, one of them is landscape, the natural landscape; a recent phenomenon that reflects the inner self. 

Methodology

Oil on stretched canvas, or prepared panels with chalk based gesso. Attention given to surface texture. Tools, brushes, spatulas, pallet knives, tonking, etc, sometimes acrylic on a small scale.

Bio

1943  Born in Birmingham

1959  Moved to Brighton

1961  Worked with St John James Drinkwater Earp – Surrealist Painter and picture restorer in his studio in Brighton

1971  Moved to Lewes as an artist, picture restorer for various commercial galleries, also in Milan

1986 to 1990  Founded Star Workshops and Studios with wife Patricia Cooper

1990  Founded Star Gallery with Patricia Cooper. The gallery exhibited work by local artists and later Royal Academy artists such as Sir Hugh Casson, Henry Moore, Paula Rego, Christopher Le Brun