Saturday 31 March 2012

limited edition t shirt : jessica cooper for arbor collective : www.arborcollective.com






SESSION - Artist Series

Arbor’s premium comfort 70% viscose from bamboo / 30% organic cotton jersey crew neck tee. Arbor Collective Artist Series - drawing. Artist: Jessica Cooper - known for understated minimalism. Made in USA.


 

Sunday 4 March 2012

life without words : the stour gallery : march 10th - april 21st






Jessica Cooper’s paintings have a clarity of observation and mark making that create their own ambiguity. Forming connections, emotions evolving and revolving, the paintings are caught in time, place and circumstance. Her subjects are the familiar that anchor her in her life; isolated on canvas, we reappraise and interpret them through our own daily lives. We feel we know them, as indeed we do; they are part of the shared human experience. A sense of place, a sense of self, and a sense of the pathos of the house, the tree, the cup, flower or fruit, are the communicating elements of Jessica Cooper’s work; that these objects and landscapes cannot know the emotional response they trigger in us; the moment caught and held by the paintbrush and pencil; and underpinning and supporting, the emotional communication, a strongly intuitive but academic understanding of area, colour, form and tone. In many ways visual poetry of the sparest and most affecting kind.