Lot 43 - Daisy Cook - Canopy Vase
Lot 43 - Daisy Cook - Canopy Vase

Lot 43 - Daisy Cook - Canopy Vase

Mixed media on paper

2023

A6 (10x15cm)

Original Artwork

Signed on Verso

This auction is raising proceeds for War Child UK

ARTIST INFO

About

Daisy Cook makes paintings which deal with these abstract imaginings. She has also never been afraid to engage with beauty, though she is not drawn to its more obvious manifestations. Her latest paintings bear ample witness to this. The meeting point of land, sea and sky has long been a focus for her art. Cook makes paintings which take landscape as their subject without being explicitly topographical or descriptive. Through a suggestion of silvery clouds and mudflat she evokes a littoral: not a specific view or portrait of a place, but a larger statement about this type of country as a habitat for the spirit, a place where the imagination may soar. Photographs are used as reference, but the key energy of these paintings resides in Cook's singular ability to recognize and identify the extraordinary in the ordinary. Her particular quality of recognition breathes through these images, animating them. Intuition and chance play their part, but they would be inert without the guiding principle of the artist's vision.

The pattern and rhythm of Cook's life has changed radically with the birth of her daughter, and instead of spending most days in her studio she is now limited to two or three much more intense sessions per week. This has focused and polarized her studio activity, giving it a different edge and set of priorities. At the same time the experience of motherhood ('the most tender thing I've ever felt') has undoubtedly fed into her work.

Select Exhibitions/Awards

2010 Restless Earth,Northcote Gallery,London

2008 Recollections,Northcote Gallery,London

2007 Weather Report,Northcote Gallery,London

2007 Flatlands, The Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge

2006 Small Journeys, Northcote Gallery Chelsea, London

2004 Even on This Shore, Northcote Gallery Chelsea, London

2003 Tabula Rasa, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

2002 The Lynne Strover Gallery, Fenn Ditton, Cambridge

2001 Red Earth, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

1999 Cuba, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

1998 Northcote Gallery Battersea, London

1997 Northcote Gallery Battersea, London

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