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Beryl Cook SaleBeryl was born in 1926 in Egham, Surrey, England, one of four sisters. She showed no early promise, nor did she have the benefit of any formal art training. When she eventually left Kendrick School in Reading at the age of 15, she went on to secretarial school and then into an insurance office. She married her childhood sweetheart, John, at the age of twenty. He was an officer in the Merchant Navy and after he left the sea in 1956, they bought a pub for a year before John took a job in Southern Rhodesia with a motor company. Beryl bought their young son a box of watercolours, and when showing him how to use it, she decided that she herself quite enjoyed painting. In 1964 Beryl and her husband returned to the UK settling first in Cornwall and then later in Plymouth where, during the summer months, Beryl ran a boarding house for holidaymakers on the seafront. Beryl had now been painting for a number of years, basing her pictures on her everyday observations of people around her. By 1975 she amassed numerous paintings that covered the walls of the boarding house. A friend took away a dozen or so and, to Beryl's surprise, managed to sell them all for around £10 each. Beryl was delighted and quickly increased her production. Bernard Samuels of the Plymouth Art Centre persuaded her to have her first exhibition in 1975, which was a huge success and attracted an enormous amount of attention, not least from the Sunday Times Magazine which featured her blonde barmaid on the front cover. One year later, she held her first London exhibition at the Portal Gallery and has gone on to hold twelve further shows with this gallery. Since the mid 1980's, Beryl Cook has become a household name and national treasure, although she maintains a very modest, shy and reticent nature. Now in her seventies, she continues to take great pleasure in the business of painting,for which she received an OBE five years ago. Her work has recently been turned into an animated sitcom series for BBC television, in which her buxom, exuberant characters are brought to life by a cast including actress Dawn French. Beryl has also just released a new book, 'Cruising', in which her subjects display the characteristic enthusiasm for life which has earned the artist international recognition. Beryl has received some serious critical acclaim, most notably with the inclusion of her paintings in the fifth Peter Moores exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool where she was seen in the context of mainstream contemporary art, alongside Bridges Riley and Victor Passmore. The new Glasgow Museum of Modern Art has also recently purchased some of her original work, ensuring her a place in the annuls of British Art. Beryl Cook continues to paint and has recently moved from Plymouth to Bristol to be nearer to her family.
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Artwork by Beryl Cook Sale
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Art Class In Stock
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Mounted,Lithograph, 750 Edition.
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A Full House
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Party Girls In Stock
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Twins
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Mounted,Silk Screen, 300 Edition.
Size: 610mm wide by 610mm tall
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Baron Entertains
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Thr Boot Sale In Stock
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Birthday Cake
Price: £240.00 +VAT
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Girls Night Out
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Silk Screen, 300 Edition.
Size: 555mm wide by 600mm tall
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Poetry Reading In Stock
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Mounted,Lithograph, 850 Edition.
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Cruising
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Strip Poker New Release
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Bathing Pool
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Mounted,Lithograph, 850 Edition.
Size: 381mm wide by 457mm tall
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Shoe Shop
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Satin Dresses
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Strippegram In Stock
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Bus Stop
Price: £240.00 +VAT
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Staircase
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Russian Tea Rooms
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Mounted,Silk Screen, 395 Edition.
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Hen Night In Stock
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Mounted,Lithograph, 850 Edition.
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Clubbing In Thev Rain
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Dirty Dancing
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Gare Du Nord In Stock
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Line Dancing
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Giclee, 300 Edition.
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Tango Busking
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Jackpot In Stock
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Lingerie Shop In Stock
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Garden Centre In Stock
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Panto Dame
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Bridge Party In Stock
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Big Olives Little Olives In Stock
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Manipulators In Stock
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Mounted,Silk Screen, 395 Edition.
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Wommen Running
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Tennis
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Roulette
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Dining Out In Stock
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