Beryl Cook

I don’t know how my pictures happen, they just do. They exist, but for the life of me I can’t explain them. Beryl Cook (1926-2008) is one of Britain’s most popular artists, renowned for her exuberant style and descriptions of everyday life.Her most enduring images are of larger-than-life women carousing in nightclubs, eating in cafés or enjoying ribald hen parties, rendered in graphic and colourful forms.She captures the spirit of the British ‘saucy seaside’ postcard. She was a self taught artist and her work came to prominence in the mid-1970s when she quickly became one of Britain’s best-loved artists.Her distinctive works have an immediately recognisable style and are both celebratory and provocative.Her work has been collected by Jackie Collins, Whoopi Goldberg and Yoko Ono amongst others.