An artist of international renown, PJ Crook was born in Cheltenham in 1945, and studied at Gloucester College of Art and Design. She is often referred to as the ‘Artist in the Crowd’ as her paintings, sometimes on a large scale – paintings of 50 x 70 inches are not unusual - invariably contain people. Much of her work is idiosyncratic, and borders on the surreal, enhanced by her practice of incorporating the frame within the composition.

She is represented by galleries in London, Florida and Paris, as well as here in the Cotswolds, and her work is in major corporate and private collections in many parts of the world, principally in Japan, France, England and the U.S.