Richard Cook British, b. 1947
Aureole, 2019
Oil on canvas
185 x 200cm
Painted from a rapid drawing done whilst walking in the New Forest, Richard Cook's 'Aureole' is an undulating abstract landscape in shades of blue, bluegreen, and pink. 'Aureole' features large,...
Painted from a rapid drawing done whilst walking in the New Forest, Richard Cook's 'Aureole' is an undulating abstract landscape in shades of blue, bluegreen, and pink.
'Aureole' features large, sweeping, gestural strokes in the foreground, and the eye moves up the painting to the suggestion of a horizon wisped into shape. This is action painting determined by the rhythms of landscape.
Named after the luminous cloud or disk of light that surrounds sacred figures in devotional paintings, Aureole transfers the heavenly to the auspices of the Earth.
'Aureole' features large, sweeping, gestural strokes in the foreground, and the eye moves up the painting to the suggestion of a horizon wisped into shape. This is action painting determined by the rhythms of landscape.
Named after the luminous cloud or disk of light that surrounds sacred figures in devotional paintings, Aureole transfers the heavenly to the auspices of the Earth.
