The Heaton Cooper Studio

The Heaton Coopers are a family of artists that go back 4 generations. The studio in Grasmere, founded by William Heaton Cooper (1903-1995) in 1939, holds permanent exhibitions of work by William and his father Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929), leading watercolour painters of the lakeland landscape. There are also sculptures by William's wife Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915-1975). The family tradition continues with William's son Julian Cooper, exhibiting oil paintings of mountainous regions of the world, his daughter Otalia, pottery and granddaughter Rebecca, mixed media.