Lorraine Cooke
@lorraine_cooke1
Statement:
My works are contemporary landscape paintings, commenting on the relationship we share with the environment. As we manoeuvre the social and political landscapes we are presented with, we are urged to evaluate our ever- changing social cohesion and the ways in which we relate to our immediate environment and what this word ‘environment’ means to us. Here, the contemporary interpretation of landscape (inscape paintings) is used as a metaphor for our existence.
Aside from the ideas, thoughts, transformations, and experiences of landscape that we amass, our interpretation and understanding of ‘landscape’ is conditioned by what we bring to it. We perceive the landscape through a complex lens charged with impeding memories, connotations, and illusions collected throughout our existence. Landscape is much more than a view; it is a reflection of our consciousness:
"If a child’s vision of nature can already be loaded with complicating memories, myths and meanings, how much more elaborately wrought is the frame through which our adult eyes survey the landscape?... Before it can ever be repose for the scenes, landscape is the work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock".
-Wallis, Brian. Statement from a survey. 'Land and Environmental Art.'
@lorraine_cooke1
Statement:
My works are contemporary landscape paintings, commenting on the relationship we share with the environment. As we manoeuvre the social and political landscapes we are presented with, we are urged to evaluate our ever- changing social cohesion and the ways in which we relate to our immediate environment and what this word ‘environment’ means to us. Here, the contemporary interpretation of landscape (inscape paintings) is used as a metaphor for our existence.
Aside from the ideas, thoughts, transformations, and experiences of landscape that we amass, our interpretation and understanding of ‘landscape’ is conditioned by what we bring to it. We perceive the landscape through a complex lens charged with impeding memories, connotations, and illusions collected throughout our existence. Landscape is much more than a view; it is a reflection of our consciousness:
"If a child’s vision of nature can already be loaded with complicating memories, myths and meanings, how much more elaborately wrought is the frame through which our adult eyes survey the landscape?... Before it can ever be repose for the scenes, landscape is the work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock".
-Wallis, Brian. Statement from a survey. 'Land and Environmental Art.'
Kinetic Blue
79.5 x 99.5cm
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
2021
79.5 x 99.5cm
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
2021