Barrie Cooke
Barrie Cooke was born in Cheshire, England. He studied at Kokoschka's School of Seeing, Salzburg and went on to study BA Art History at Harvard University, USA before moving to Ireland in 1954 as a young adult. He says that he "felt this was the sort of place for me .I'm not Irish but I'm more Irish than anything else."
He is known, primarily, for his landscape paintings and to a lesser extent, his nudes. Of prevalence to his work is the strong effect of water and light within his compositions. A self proclaimed romantic, his work is absorbed in nature which is depicted not always through life, but also through the representation of death, the natural cyclical order; the cycle of life. His theme offers a visceral immediacy through his loose brushwork and free use of paint which portrays the natural world in its beautiful, but muddy and organic situation.
Cooke is championed as one of the best expressionist painters in Ireland and has exhibited widely throughout Europe and US. His work can be found in institutions such as Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Gallery, Cork; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. He represented Ireland in Paris Biennale in 1963. Barrie Cooke is a member of Aosdana.
He is known, primarily, for his landscape paintings and to a lesser extent, his nudes. Of prevalence to his work is the strong effect of water and light within his compositions. A self proclaimed romantic, his work is absorbed in nature which is depicted not always through life, but also through the representation of death, the natural cyclical order; the cycle of life. His theme offers a visceral immediacy through his loose brushwork and free use of paint which portrays the natural world in its beautiful, but muddy and organic situation.
Cooke is championed as one of the best expressionist painters in Ireland and has exhibited widely throughout Europe and US. His work can be found in institutions such as Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Gallery, Cork; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. He represented Ireland in Paris Biennale in 1963. Barrie Cooke is a member of Aosdana.
.jpg "LUGGALA by Barrie Cooke sold for €2,200 at deVeres Auctions")
