Daisy Cook
Daisy Cook creates paintings depicting with what she refers to as ‘abstract imaginings’. Her paintings 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. She works in very thin layers that create incredible depth infused with a sense of space and time. Her use of thinned out oil paint creates intricate and somewhat accidental dripping patterns combined with more rigid geometric shapes.
I paint from collective memory
Cook was born in 1965 and is the daughter of the legendary English satirist and comedian, Peter Cook. She is a largely self-taught artist who has been showing successfully since 1999.
