DENTDALE    In the Yorkshire Dales National Park

   

 

Hill Studio
Dent Sedbergh
Cumbria
LA10 5QL
 Tel: 015396 25354    
e.mail: hill.studio@talk21.com
Website: www.johncooke.org
 

  
 

NEW PUBLICATION
PAINTINGS of the LAKE DISTRICT and DENTDALE
 

John  Cooke`s paintings and drawings are collected world wide. Figures, portraits and still-lifes are all included in his oeuvre but his landscapes are especially well known.  This book contains a collection of paintings of a region of outstanding natural beauty. The English Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales have been extolled in paint and print from Wordsworth`s “Daffodils” and Constable`s “Buttermere” to the more recent and light-hearted writings of Dales life by Gervaise Phinn.   “Landscapes of the Lake District and Dentdale”  contains a wealth of paintings of the region seen through the eyes of an artist who finds subjects to paint away from the more popular viewpoints.  Always it is a sense of light which dominates his work and always this is the overriding quality of these landscapes.  

ISBN 9781449052966 8.5 x 11
Price £19.50

  


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John has been drawing since he was old enough to hold a pencil. Brought up in the Potteries, he left Stoke-on-Trent College of Art with a National Diploma in Design in Painting at Special Level and moved to East Anglia where he taught geography for a number of years.

 
British artist John Cooke chose the beautiful valley of Dentdale as his home because of his love of its hills, their sense of wildness and the inspiration they provide for his work.

John is renowned for his haunting landscapes of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales but, always keen to develop and experiment, he has found himself equally inspired and challenged by the mountains and deserts of Oman, where he is a permanent exhibitor at the Majlis Gallery in Dubai

 

 

  

   

However, his love of wild places, where light and weather can change the landscape dramatically, drew him to the western Yorkshire Dales and he set up The Hill Studio in Dent in 1976. Although trained as an oil painter, John enjoys the challenge of experimenting with different media. All kinds of subjects spark his interest and inspiration often comes from actual experiences, such as some chance effect of light seen and captured in the minds eye. Influenced by the Impressionists, and particularly Alfred Sisley, John places great importance on painterly qualities such as the calligraphy of pen and brush in his work.

 
He has exhibited at a host of national and international events and has a one-man exhibition in London each year. His work has been commissioned and published on book-jackets, calendars, postcards and posters by well-known companies including Penguin Books, Shell Oil and Reader's Digest. Private collectors of John's work are many and come from all walks of life, including the Duke of Kent and actor Keith Barron.  

 

  TO FIND HILL STUDIO:

You will find Hill Studio near The George & Dragon, head down the hill (opposite the church entrance) just passed the telephone box on the left. The Studio is open most days but, to be sure, please phone first on 015396 25354