Eleanor Brooks (1925-2022) ‘Marga Cooking,’ (c1958) oil on board, framed with label to verso.
Dimensions: 23.2 cm x 29 cm, with frame 26.5 cm x 32.2 cm
Eleanor Brooks was born in Lincolnshire in 1925. She was educated at a convent school in Brighton, where she was introduced to works of Renaissance art and was inspired to pursue a career as painter.
From 1946 to the year she graduated in 1950 (the same year she married the writer Jeremy Brooks) Eleanor attended Camberwell School of Art where she studied under a trio of Euston Road Group painters William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers; a later teacher was Martin Bloch. Her fellow students included Euan Uglow, Gillian Eyres and Terry Frost.
Eleanor held her first solo exhibition at the Artists International Association Gallery in London in 1957, an exhibiting society which had exhibited work by a large number of significant British and European artists including Fernand Léger and Picasso. Eleanor’s work was also also shown alongside Richard Eurich, Carel Weight and William Roberts at the Royal Academy.
Eleanor Brooks (1925-2022) ‘Marga Cooking,’ (c1958) oil on board, framed with label to verso.
Dimensions: 23.2 cm x 29 cm, with frame 26.5 cm x 32.2 cm
Eleanor Brooks was born in Lincolnshire in 1925. She was educated at a convent school in Brighton, where she was introduced to works of Renaissance art and was inspired to pursue a career as painter.
From 1946 to the year she graduated in 1950 (the same year she married the writer Jeremy Brooks) Eleanor attended Camberwell School of Art where she studied under a trio of Euston Road Group painters William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers; a later teacher was Martin Bloch. Her fellow students included Euan Uglow, Gillian Eyres and Terry Frost.
Eleanor held her first solo exhibition at the Artists International Association Gallery in London in 1957, an exhibiting society which had exhibited work by a large number of significant British and European artists including Fernand Léger and Picasso. Eleanor’s work was also also shown alongside Richard Eurich, Carel Weight and William Roberts at the Royal Academy.
