May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878-1943) was a painter and etcher born in Birmingham. She studied at Leamington Spa School of Art, Liverpool School of Art, and at the South Kensington Schools where she won silver and bronze medals. She was awarded a travelling scholarship and visited Italy to study ecclesiastical painting. She also travelled in Brittany. Cooksey exhibited at Royal Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and at the Walker Art Gallery on many occasions.
Examples of her designs were illustrated in the Studio Magazine in 1900 and in again 1901. Her commissions included a decorative panel for the altar at St. Anne's in Liverpool, and a series of fourteen Stations of the Cross for the church of St. Francis of Assisi in Gaesron. She also taught in London at South Kensington.
