My work
The current exploration of what is best described as 'inscape' draws upon the history of landscape genre in painting and is an attempt to rationalize the landscape in which I find myself. I use 'landscape' in the broadest sense of the word, not excluding the landscape of the mind. But why landscape with all of its stereotypical connotations? The answer is simple- of the many constituents that form the human psyche our relationship with the environment is essential:
"Nature is the biggest of the big pictures. We worship and loathe it, sanctify and destroy it... Subject both of science and art, the landscape functions as a mirror and a lens: in it we see the space we occupy and ourselves as we occupy it. And have consistently sought to connect in some level with the landscape."
My paintings mark the contemporary relevance or apparent neglect of landscape art, which seems to have lost its focus over the later part of the last century. Having been superseded by the complexity and confusion of practice, which could be construed as artistically introspective.
-Quotation: An extract from a survey by Brian Wallis. ('Land and Environmental Art.')
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Postgraduate study.
Sun, 17/05/2009 - 18:04 — Lorraine Cooke.Lorraine’s work is highly individual in it’s vibrant and stimulating depiction of her emotive responses to the natural landscape. Her imagery has a visual dynamic which intrigues the eye through a complex and inventive use of layered space and multiple perspectives. There is clearly a passion for the activity of painting not weighed down by tradition or academic concerns so often evident within this genre of work. She is an artist who has not forgotten the intrinsic values of risk taking and playfulness in the making of work which conveys her love of the natural world.
Roderick K. Newlands. MA RCA. Artist.
Lorraine will shortly be moving to Cyprus (to the Neolithic village of Lempa on the West Coast.) Following an extensive period of investigative research and practice surrounding the history and culture of Cyprus with a continued inquiry into the exploration of landscape genre in painting Lorraine is due to commence study of the Postgraduate diploma course in fine art at Cyprus College of Art (October 2009- July 2010.) Up-to-date developments of Lorraine’s art work and discoveries of the Island will be recorded on the diary page of her website.