LONDON ART FAIR 26

Business Design Centre, London N1

Rabley Gallery

Stand 12

20 - 25 January 2026

Eileen Cooper RA

New works of paper

In Eileen Cooper’s new series of works on paper ‘Into the Forest’ the figures inhabit a woodland world. As often in Cooper’s work there’s a suggestion of mythology, childhood stories half remembered and references to art history. Particularly in these new drawings Lucas Cranach and other medieval artists. Recurring themes from myths emerge, (the goddess Diana, protector of nature and the wilderness,) combined with contemporary tales including that of Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill. Here Cooper works with pastel and charcoal in a muted tonal range, filling the frame with trees and the gentle diffused light of the forest.

‘The Wisdom Tree’ is a new work on paper and ‘Butterfly’ a woodcut. The imagery of a woman in a tree was inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill, an American environmental activist. She lived in a 200-foot-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California Redwood tree for nearly two years in 1997–99. The tree Butterfly-Hill protected was saved, her actions raised awareness of the plight of ancient forests.

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