Nostalgia: Mottram artist's paintings on show in London

Mottram artist Pat Cooke staged a one-woman exhibition starting in London. 

Forty of her pictures went on show at the Monmouth Street, Upper St Martin’s Lane gallery, making it her 10th exhibition so far.

Amongst the latest pictures to go on show was the one pictured here of a painting of Mottram-in-Longdendale sermons.

Pat studied at the Manchester College of Art and then at Slade School of Fine Art. 

She was an art teacher up until 1965 before exhibiting her work in Manchester, Liverpool and London.

Pat had also written two books on the history of dress. 

She received an invite to exhibit her art in Dublin by the International James Joyce Foundation, a series of illustrations for Ulysees of which two hung in the gallery of modern art in Dublin.

In 1970, Dutch magazine, Panorama, commissioned her to do a series of pictures in Amsterdam and her work was used in private collections throughout Europe and America.

This latest exhibition marked Pat’s tenth one-woman show and many of the paintings depicted northern scenes bearing titles such as ‘Manchester Whit Walks’, ‘Black Puddings, Bury’, ‘Bath in Front of the Fire’, ‘Old Weavers House in Lancashire’ and ‘Blackpool Golden Mile.’