Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery opened 'Learning to Fly,' a solo exhibition by Eileen Cooper RA, on September 3, 2026, at its Tower Bridge space. The show, on view through October 3, presents new paintings and works on paper by the British artist. Cooper, a Royal Academician, is known for a consistently distinctive illustrative style: bold, symbolic scenes of women — dancing, embracing, transforming — rendered with strong line and vivid color. Her imagery ignores the distinction between the personal and the mythic, inviting viewers to invent their own stories for the scenes before them. The exhibition continues the gallery's program of championing painters with deeply individual visual languages and gives one of Britain's most beloved figurative painters a prominent Bermondsey platform.