James Cook
"Oak Creek, Bedrock"
oil on linen
48" x 70"
"Catskill Freshet"
oil on linen
70" x 60" (SOLD)
"Oakcreek Reflections"
oil on linen
18" x 24"
"Russian Reflections"
oil on linen
70" x 79"
"Watson's Hollow #1"
oil on linen
70" x 60"
"Watson's Hollow #2"
oil on linen
60" x 70" (SOLD)
"Velarde"
oil on linen
70" x 60" (SOLD)
About the Artist
Cook's paintings are in the best tradition of American landscape painting. He is an artist absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists, it differs from them in that it projects a recognizable reality, dictated by his personal vision and technical skills.
"My work is more choreographed than planned because there is a sequence of marks that interact to portray the subject. When I pick up a brush or a trowel and lay down a line, the tool plows up paint and changes the mixture of color. I have to choreograph that interaction between one layer of detail and another. It always takes me somewhere I don't expect." — James Cook
