{"id":412711,"date":"2026-02-07T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:54:07","slug":"why-wasnt-beryl-cook-treated-as-a-serious-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412711\/","title":{"rendered":"Why wasn’t Beryl Cook treated as a serious artist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooks says it was a privilege to be part of the exhibition: “I’ve lived most of my life in the south west and the communities I’ve been part of have been an enormous part of what keeps me painting and making things.”<\/p>\n

“Probably, like a lot of people, it’s a complicated kind of relationship, and that tension can be very uncomfortable and very generative.”<\/p>\n

Brooks credits Cook as part of their life and inspiration, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Cook has always been there in my studio, in book and postcard and coaster form – that sounds trivial but it’s not, it’s my day to day. I look at her work a lot. <\/p>\n

“I love the way she’s able to capture scenes of everyday life, external<\/a> and moments you might well encounter in a day with real tenderness and wit. <\/p>\n

“There’s such joy in how she describes situations and people and places, I love noticing the little details and seeing how she laboured over a person’s fringe or a table leg.”<\/p>\n

Brooks says Cook tried to describe things as she wanted to, even though “sometimes it works beautifully and sometimes it’s a bit off”. <\/p>\n

“There’s humility there, and I really respond to that,” Brooks adds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks says it was a privilege to be part of the exhibition: “I’ve lived most of my life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}