Mary Cossey
Studied fine art at Ravensbourne College of Art. Worked in advertising and resumed painting full-time in 1970. Studied etching in 1978. Studied drawing at Royal College of Art Extra-Mural class 1988-2001 and Royal Academy Schools 2002-12. Member of Greenwich Printmakers Association and South Bank Printmakers.
Awards and prizes
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1995: Cornelissen Prize
New English Art Club, 1997: Companions' Drawing Prize
PMC Biennale, 1999: Whatman International Paper Award
Works in collections
Houses of Parliament
Guildhall
Kings College Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Institute of Psychiatry
London Boroughs of Lewisham and Bromley
McIndoe Surgical Centre, East Grinstead
Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions (10 works)
Royal West of England Academy
Barbican Library Gallery
Whitechapel Open
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
New English Art Club
Barbican Concourse Gallery
Lyric Hammersmith
Printmakers Council Open Biennale
Contemporary Print Fair
Morley College Print Show
National Print Exhibition
Clifford Chance
The South Bank Picture Show
Woodlands Art Gallery
Dulwich Gallery Friends
Laing Painting Competition
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Society of Painters – Printmakers
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Chewing the shoe
Etching
Sleeping baby 2
Etching
20 x 16 cm
Sleeping sitting up
Etching
20 x 16 cm
The oak tree
Etching
40 x 52 cm
Three willows
Etching
45 x 40 cm
Blossom by Blossom the Spring Appears
Etching
Shakespeare's Globe
Etching
The First Morning of Snow
Etching
The Six Ballerinas
Etching
The Red Sledge
Etching
Mother and Child 1V
Etching
Framed £90
Gathered Flowers
Etching
Framed £160
The Little River
Etching
Framed £130
Buttercups in the Field
Etching
Framed £170
' Most of these were completed during my buttercup period, my favourite wild flowers, they don't have hundreds of petals as do daisies and roses.'
The End of the Day
Etching
Framed £250
The Apple Tree
Etching
Rowan - 3 days
etching
'The most recent print is of my great-grandson Rowan (3 days). I am not old, my son had Rowan's mother when he was 17. No point in being angry so I bought a teddy'