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The Greetings Card by Beryl Cook features a whimsical illustration showcasing two tattoo artists at work in a studio, each tattooing a different man. One man flaunts a mermaid design, while the other is getting a fish tattooed on his back. In the background, sailors stand at the shopfront, peering into the studio with their palms on the window. It’s an ideal blank greetings card that comes enclosed in a white envelope.

Beryl Cook

Greetings Card

£2.50

Blank greetings Card by artist Beryl Cook with a white envelope.

Dimensions

16 cm x 16 cm

Finishing

Blank greetings card with a white envelope

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      A vibrant illustration by Beryl Cook depicts three women walking closely together under a green umbrella. Donning short dresses and high heels, with delightfully exaggerated round features, one of them carries a purple purse. The greetings card comes complete with a white envelope.
      A colourful illustration by Beryl Cook, shows seven women in a room. Two of the women are holding up red lingerie, a bra and a thong, while another stands in a black lingerie one-piece and stockings. The other four women are sitting, fixing the clothing, or smiling and holding drinks. Brightly coloured slip dresses hang in the background. This lively scene greetings card comes complete with a white envelope.

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      About The Artwork

      Go for the full set or choose between ‘Tattoo Artist’, ‘Clubbing in the Rain’, ‘Party Girls’, ‘Hair Bells’, ‘My Fur Coat’ and ‘Ladies Who Lunch’ with these Beryl Cook greetings cards. Blank inside for your own message, each card comes with a simple white envelope.

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      About Beryl Cook

      Beryl Cook (1926–2008) was one of Britain’s best-loved artists. A self-taught painter, Cook is renowned for her exuberant style and explorations of English cultural identity and everyday life. Portrayed with defiance, her work can be understood as engaging with ideas around ‘female camp’, class and pleasure. Additionally, they can be contextualised within contemporary body positivity movements. Her larger-sized, usually jovial characters celebrate bigger bodies and inclusivity.

      Cook's most celebrated and enduring images are of larger-than-life women carousing in nightclubs, eating in cafés or enjoying ribald hen parties. Though the women in Cook’s works embody comedic or bawdy qualities, they command the space of her paintings in complex, vivid and entirely believable portraits that draw from keenly observed social interactions.

      Today, her works are held in the collections of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, the Bristol City Museum of Art Gallery, and the Plymouth City Art Gallery, among others. The artist has received retrospective exhibitions at Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2007); Plymouth City Art Gallery, Plymouth (2017); and A.H.F.T.A.W, New York (2022).

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