About Suzanne Cochrane

Suzanne Cochrane at Eye Feast 2026: a painter in the New English tradition

Regent's Park Gallery  ·  1 June 2026

Three lemons on a canvas. There is a particular tradition of British painting — patient, observational, uninterested in fireworks — that has produced this kind of small, considered still life for the better part of a hundred and fifty years. Suzanne Cochrane is squarely in that tradition, and her piece for Eye Feast 2026 wears its lineage quietly.

About the artist

Suzanne Cochrane is a teacher of art at several London colleges, with a practice that exhibits widely — including with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club, two of the longest-standing and most discriminating exhibiting societies in British painting. Membership of, and showing with, the NEAC in particular signals an artist working in the considered, looking-led line of British still life and figurative painting that runs from Sickert through to Uglow and beyond.

The work in the show

Lemons (oil on canvas) — £450

A 35.5 × 35.5 cm oil on canvas of three lemons. Painted with the steady, observational discipline of someone who teaches younger painters how to look — which means every decision in the picture, from the colour temperature of the background to the placement of the shadows beneath the fruit, has been made deliberately rather than by accident. The result is the kind of work that quietly improves any room it ends up in.

Where to see it

Lemons is in Eye Feast 2026 at Regent's Park Gallery, 17 Princess Road, London NW1 8JR, from 5 June to 27 June 2026. Oil on canvas, 35.5 × 35.5 cm. £450.

Suzanne also has work in the gallery's ongoing Parkscapes collection — the gallery's long-running selection of paintings, drawings and original art prints of north and west London's parks and green spaces.

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