BIOGRAPHY
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1947. Lived and taught in London until 1975 and then moved to the Lake District. Married to the painter Julian Cooper and lives and works in Cockermouth, Cumbria.
EDUCATION
1963-65
Foundation Course, Newcastle College of Art.
1965-68
Dip.A.D. Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, University of London.
1968- 69
A.T.D. Liverpool College of Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Time Regained: 1975 -2016, Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere.
2015
Subterranean Workings, Association of Jungian Analysts, London.
2013
The Crucible and other paintings, Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth.
2004
Wood & Water, Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth.
1994
Studio Gallery, Brantwood, Coniston.
1994
Isis Gallery, Melmerby.
1992
Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Gallery Artists, Winter, Browse & Darby, London.
2023
Spring Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London.
2022
Christmas Exhibition 2022. Browse & Darby, London.
2022
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Annual Open Exhibition. Conwy, N. Wales.
2021
Christmas Exhibition 2021. Browse & Darby, London.
2021
Figurative Art Now. Selected online exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2020
Six Painters Selected by Andrew Lambirth. Browse & Darby, London.
2017
Finalist for Cumbria Life Visual Artist of the Year.
2014
Open Up North, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
2012
Heaton Cooper: A Family of Artists 1863 – 2012. Rheged Gallery, Penrith.
2011
Open Up North, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
2011
Excavations: new paintings by Julian Cooper & Linda Ryle. Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.
2008
Outside The Glass, Perspectives on Norman Nicholson. Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.
2008
Outside The Glass, Perspectives on Norman Nicholson. Alexandra Gallery, Lancaster.
2007
Earth, Air and Water, Red Barn Gallery, Melkinthorpe.
2006
Women Artists, Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth.
2005
The Daffodils, Brantwood, Coniston and touring to Keswick, Sussex and South Africa.
2003
Mixed Show, Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth.
1998
Interiors, Brewery Restaurant Gallery, Kendal.
1997
20 by 20, Summer Show, University Gallery, Newcastle.
1997
C.O.3., Open Show, Tullie House, Carlisle.
1996
Tarns and Waterfalls of Cumbria, Oddfellows Gallery, Kendal.
1995
Laing Art Competition, University Gallery, Newcastle.
1995
Laing Art Competition, Mall Galleries, London.
1994
Northern Lights 1., Clayton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1994
Art in the Garden, Oddfellows Gallery, Kendal.
1992
Art for Sale, Guardian Newspaper, and Whiteley’s, London.
1992
Carlisle Open Exhibition, Tullie House, Carlisle.
1991
Mixed Show, Brantwood Studio Gallery.
1990
Northern Printmaking Exhibition, Billingham, Teeside.
1988
London Group, Royal College of Art, London.