Michael Cooper NEAC passed away in June 2025 and will be missed by his friends at the New English Art Club. Read a tribute to Michael (Mike) by Paul Newland NEAC.

Artist 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."

 

Method of Working

"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."

 

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

  • 1990 Founded Star Gallery with Patricia Cooper, exhibiting work by local artists & later RA artists such as Sir Hugh Casson, Henry Moore, Paula Rego, Christopher Le Brun
  • 1986-90 Founded Star Workshops and Studios with wife Patricia Cooper
  • 1971 Moved to Lewes as artist, and picture restorer for various commercial galleries, also in Milan
  • 1961 Worked with St John James Drinkwater Earp – Surrealist Painter and picture restorer in his studio in Brighton
  • 1959 Moved to Brighton