Jessica Cooper ‘Driving to Zennor + Stopping for Flowers’
13 September – 10 October 2025
Jessica Cooper
A little glow in the evening sun
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm
Jessica Cooper
Along the way
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm
Jessica Cooper
The road winds slowly upwards
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm
Jessica Cooper
The split land | over 100 years
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm £1250
Jessica Cooper
The iconic
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm £1250
Jessica Cooper
Lily of the valley
acrylic on canvas
33 x 33cm
Jessica Cooper
Zennor
acrylic on canvas
33 x 33cm £1300
Jessica Cooper
Across your heart
acrylic on canvas
61 x 61cm
Jessica Cooper
Today
acrylic on canvas
76 x 82cm £4200
Jessica Cooper
Valentine
acrylic on canvas
76 x 82cm £4200
Jessica Cooper
Back on the road to Zennor
acrylic on canvas
102 x 102cm £6200
Jessica Cooper
Driving to Zennor
acrylic on canvas
82 x 76cm £4200
Jessica Cooper
The Girls
acrylic on canvas
76 x 82cm £4200
Jessica Cooper
Mainly about poppies
acrylic on canvas
102 x 107cm £6200
Jessica Cooper
Where comfort lies
acrylic on canvas
82 x 86cm
Jessica Cooper
Quieter
acrylic on canvas
76 x 82cm
Jessica Cooper
Almost September | You can see it in the colour
acrylic on canvas
23 x 33cm
Jessica Cooper
Loving you every step of the way
acrylic on canvas
86 x 82cm £4300
Jessica Cooper
Cortado Glass
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Wild flower
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Take me home
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Shopping bag
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Tomato + tulip
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Popping candy
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Looking back over my shoulder
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Magical flowers
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
You caught my heart
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Parked on the side of the coast road
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
The answer
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Can’t get enough of you
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Milk pot
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
The secret to life
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Peace maker
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Working it out
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Oh yeah
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm
Jessica Cooper
Inside of a poppy
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
In zennor wild drawing
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Drawing for across your heart 1
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Partners in crime
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Outside of the boxes
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Butterfly kisses
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Sitting at the table I
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Sitting at the table II
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
So what did you do today
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
In the valley
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Jacob’s flowers
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
The skirted field
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Ice cream colours
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Columbine flower
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
My old vase
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Standing dominos
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Seed heads
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Trying something new
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Mine
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Folding love
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Drawing for the split land | over 100 years
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
I have you
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Diving birds
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Love love love you
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Side tracked
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Steal my heart every time
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
One in a million
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Mapping
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Noticing You
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Drawing for The Iconic
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
You are my shelter
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
House Music
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Coming through
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Where I want to be
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Pink blossom
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Watching the fields go round
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
When the sun falls
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Happy horse
permanent pen on sea white paper
25 x 24cm (unframed) £400
Jessica Cooper
Mint
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Flat White
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Eight
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Drawing for 20 stems
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Perfect
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed)
Jessica Cooper
Anomaly
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
Jessica Cooper
Lily of the valley drawing
permanent pen on sea white paper
19 x 19cm (unframed) £350
In an uncertain world, Jessica Cooper’s paintings and drawings return us to well-trodden landscapes and a troupe of familiar things.
Deeply ingrained are her memories of being driven on the North Coast of Penwith as a small child and visiting her father’s antique shop across the peninsula on Causewayhead. Now, retracing that street to collect a weekly wrap of local stems and a coffee for the studio, paths cross and new stories coalesce with the echoes of past conversations.
In this second of her three shows to be held in the intimacy of the upper gallery at Cornwall Contemporary, personal, cultural and geological histories slip us between open vistas and tabletops. All time is present here. Deployed with the most essential of pictorial elements, protagonists who have shaped the artist’s sense of place and self begin to reveal themselves from between the painstaking layers of painted lines and ever-present texture of the canvas: the carn, the sea, the painter’s clifftop home and the writer’s wartime retreat, the rolling road, the sky, the dark, the searchlight, the edge.
Then we’re back. ‘Hello! Hi, Jess!’ Trinkets and flower heads dance in diaphanous coloured lines on crisp, luminous Seawhite paper. The steam of the coffee machine welcomes in the morning sun, and the journey repeats; we smile and go about our days.
Sara Matson August 2025
