Born in Cheshire, England, Barrie Cooke came to Ireland in 1954 and immediately fell in love with the landscape. He was interested in the immediate and compelling accurate accounts of the natural world, depicting how close in nature life is to death. Death, change and decay are built into the natural world, and it is for this reason that we see a great deal of death in his oil paintings: crumpled bodies of game animals, diseased sheep and their remains, and carcasses. It seems as if Cooke is
always immersed in nature, at his best in a wet, measy rural place, removed from the the experience of our world.
Pictured above:
‘Snow 1’
Signed, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 47.75 cm(17.5 x 18.75 in)
Provance: The Kearney collection sale :Adam’s
Lot 21 Illust.
The Richie Hendriks Gallery
Exhibited: The Cork Art Society “Exhbition of paintings and Sculpture by
Leading Irish Artists
On loan from Patrons of the Society “The Gallery, Laitts Quay, Cork
March 1966, Cat No, 3
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