Bernice Cooke Artist

Bernice Cooke Artist My name is Bernice Cooke and I am an Artist, Illustrator and writer.

A grateful appreciation post for my good news of last week - Prime Minister Mark Carney and a special painting. Thank yo...
26/06/2026

A grateful appreciation post for my good news of last week - Prime Minister Mark Carney and a special painting. Thank you for all of your well wishes and support, to all of you who private messaged and whatsapped I am very grateful. It's not often I get such amazing opportunities and this is one of many that I am so grateful for.

Stay tuned for some further exciting news in the coming month. Currently I'm working on a sculpture and I'm still submitting looking for the next yes 😉😉🙏🙏 Happy weekend ❣️
Much love to you all xx.

Absolutely blown away and grateful to the universe budda, the planets the other side whomever is watching over me. This ...
17/06/2026

Absolutely blown away and grateful to the universe budda, the planets the other side whomever is watching over me.

This piece - warning story alert 😂😂, I painted for my first exhibition, I love Mayo , honeymooned there many years ago, anyways I fell in love with a place called Aghagower and decided to paint it watercolour and ink and include it in my first solo exhibition. I sold prints of it and still kept the original. Until.....

One day an important phone call from an important office, for a very important person arriving "home"

Acquired by the department of the Taoiseach and presented to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his recent official visit to Ireland. As an artist from the West of Ireland I am privileged, grateful and delighted that this piece has found it's "home"

20/05/2026

Pack a nice order with me and deliver it to the stunning Tullynally Castle in County Westmeah. Delighted to have my work in such a great location.

I'm still balancing art with everyday life and work, but it's moments like this that brings me tremendous joy 😍

What lies ahead.Graphite and chalk on paper.
31/12/2025

What lies ahead.
Graphite and chalk on paper.

I really don't do Christmas, but I finished this the other day. I'll let her tell the story.
25/12/2025

I really don't do Christmas, but I finished this the other day. I'll let her tell the story.

I Mattered (Hopi)Charcoal and chalk on paper, A2.This drawing came from a dream and took longer than anything I've creat...
18/12/2025

I Mattered (Hopi)

Charcoal and chalk on paper, A2.

This drawing came from a dream and took longer than anything I've created this year.

I wanted to slow everything down and stay with the act of looking.

"This past year has been brimming with rejections - big ones, small ones, local ones, the ones I quietly hoped for and t...
30/11/2025

"This past year has been brimming with rejections - big ones, small ones, local ones, the ones I quietly hoped for and the ones I barely admitted I wanted.
I've been sharing them in my stories - not because I am looking for comfort, sympathy or praise, but because this is the real part of being an artist that sometimes stays hidden - maybe because it upsets the carefully curated grid of Instagram life 🙄, but I celebrate these rejections, every last one, putting my work out into the world means accepting that 'no' might come again and again...... And it did.
But, guess what? I'm still here, still drawing,
still creating, still showing up for the work that moves me. I don't create because I'm guaranteed a place - I create because I can't imagine not doing it.
I know it only takes one 'yes' in the right moment, from the right eyes, in the right room.
My resilience is part of who I am.
I will get that 'Yes' and you better believe there will be tears 😘 happy ones!

Charcoal portrait of a Qahatika Girl.

"Morning Eagle - Piegan, 1910'Pencil and chalk on Strathmore toned paper.I was drawn to his expression - gentle, thought...
09/11/2025

"Morning Eagle - Piegan, 1910'
Pencil and chalk on Strathmore toned paper.
I was drawn to his expression - gentle, thoughtful, and full of stories I'll never know.

People have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the chance to be heard. As an Irish person, I think we carry the storytelling gene - it's in our bones. I imagine those long winter nights, the turf fire glowing, an oil lamp flickering, and stories, myths and legends weaving their way through the room.

I have stories too - some passed down, some born from my own life. Maybe that's why faces like this speak to me."

"Eskimo Madonna" - pencil and chalk on Strathmore toned paper. Inspired by a 1903 image from Nome, Alaska. I drew this l...
02/11/2025

"Eskimo Madonna" - pencil and chalk on Strathmore toned paper. Inspired by a 1903 image from Nome, Alaska. I drew this last month and thought it fitting to post today. There's something timeless in this quiet strength - a mother holding her child close. As children head back to school tomorrow after Halloween midterm, this tenderness feels especially close to the heart ❤️

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