BERYL COOK

The Independent (London, England) | May 30, 2008| | Copyright

Self-taught painter with a beady eye for the joys and absurdities of life

The painter Beryl Cook changed the way we look at the world. You can see "Beryl Cook moments" everywhere: girls out on a hen night dressed as French maids, middle-aged ladies enjoying the delights of a male stripper or a seemingly ordinary scene in the supermarket - all have been recorded by this consummate observer of the joys and absurdities of (mainly) British life.

Cook was a shy and private person who took the job of painting very seriously indeed. She would take enormous trouble over each work, painstakingly ...

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