I finally made it to Eileen Cooper’s exhibition having tried a couple of times previously without success. It’s in a gallery I didn’t know called Rook & Raven in Rathbone Place just north of Oxford Street and consists of work she has done since her exhibition at the RA, based on loose interpretations of the theme of Love-in-Idleness, inspired by a speech by Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream. They hover intriguingly between realism and myth:-
No surprise there : what an excellent appointment as Keeper she has turned out to be.
How kind of you to blog about my show! thank you E x >