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Beryl's paintings have been included in the Peter Moores exhibition at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, where she was seen in the context of mainstream contemporary art, alongside Bridget Riley and Victor Pasmore. Several
touring exhibitions of her paintings have visited galleries and museums around the UK. The new Glasgow Museum of Modern Art has recently acquired some of her original work ensuring her place in the annals of British art
history.
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Beryl Cook has created a genre as immediately recognizable as Lowry's matchstick people of Donald McGill's saucy postcard characters, yet she is modest about her achievement. She insists she leads a very mundane
life. Her fat frolicsome people follow no party line, preach no philosophy, punch home no message other than the oblique unstated one that their creator has found through them her own pathway to a happy and fulfilled
life.
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