Richard Cook British, b. 1947
I Have Traced the Valleys Fair, 2019
Oil on canvas
136 x 143cm
Painted on canvas in oil, I Have Traced the Valleys Fair is a large original artwork by Richard Cook, in which a viaduct (located in Devon) takes on the dreamlike...
Painted on canvas in oil, I Have Traced the Valleys Fair is a large original artwork by Richard Cook, in which a viaduct (located in Devon) takes on the dreamlike characteristics of some fairytale creature.
Picked out from the woozy backdrop by subtle tonal variations, the bridge recedes and bends its back through tricks of the coastal light. This is instinctive, elemental, sophisticated painting by the artist, capped with the evocations of John Clare (from a line in whose poem the work takes its title).
Picked out from the woozy backdrop by subtle tonal variations, the bridge recedes and bends its back through tricks of the coastal light. This is instinctive, elemental, sophisticated painting by the artist, capped with the evocations of John Clare (from a line in whose poem the work takes its title).
