Monday 8 February 2010

Beryl Cook. 1926 – 2008.




Top: Hen Night.
Above: Clubbing In The Rain.

"I love it when I see people enjoying themselves. I'd quite like to be the one singing and dancing drunkenly in the middle of a crowd!"

Beryl painted loud, comical characters, but she was a very shy lady and didn't like being the centre of attention. She didn't attend any of her gallery openings..

In 2007 Beryl's fans launched a campaign against the Tate Modern in London for spending thousands of pounds on a can of conceptual human excrement, and not buying a single painting by Beryl Cook.