Frances Cooley

Frances Cooley has spent a lifetime creating graphic designs, illustrations, drawings, and paintings. Growing up with creative parents, an architect and a fabric print designer who both encouraged her to draw everyday. She gained a degree in Art and Design in 1984, has travelled the world spending a year in Hong Kong working for Henry Steiner.

Now after 15 years working full time as an artist she enjoys experimenting with texture, geometry and colour in oil paintings. Her work includes nature, still life and figurative studies. Whether travelling or in her own back garden, she finds inspiration in the beauty of nature. Her paintings en-plein-air bring to life the scenes in Britain, Europe and India.