Vanessa Cooper is a Dorset based Artist who studied at Portsmouth University and first exhibited her work in 1987.

Vanessa has built a strong reputation as a bold, imaginative artist with a deep love of colour, taking her inspiration from nature and family life. Her art is spontaneous, life-affirming, often quirky. Her glorious vases of flowers surrounded by fluttering birds are extremely charming. When she paints animals she captures their innocence, personality and spirit. Often categorised as a 'naïve' artist Vanessa works principally in oils as well as a variety of other mediums, redrawing her compositions over and over again to pare down the picture's content to its most basic elements.

‘I like to make people feel good when they look at my paintings. For me, it’s colour that does it every time, to make a painting resonate, you have to understand colour. Mine is very basic and I’m still learning. I was taught that colour is a language with its own psychology and vibrations and to observe the shades nature puts together when you are looking for inspiration. Nature is so powerful, it stills your centre and is very inspiring. Colour is very healing and energising’

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