MARY COOPER (nee Stewart) (1911-1998) was an artist in oils, collage, rope and other materials, mainly abstract. She was born in South Farnborough, Hampshire, where her father was a serving officer in the military, and was educated at St Mary’s Hall in Brighton and later studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Bernard Adeney. She married in April 1940 in London. Mary Cooper was a member of the Free Painters and Sculptors Group (the FPS) and she exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, the Mall Galleries and the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London. Later in life she settled in Richmond in Surrey. When she died in October 1998 she was living in Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire.