Richard Cook

Richard Vernon Francis Cook (born 1947, Cheltenham, England) is a British painter living and working in Newlyn, Cornwall. Cook has been exhibiting for over twenty five years and has received awards from the British Council and the Arts Council. In 2001 he was given a solo show at Tate St Ives, with a related publication, and a major painting was acquired for the collection in 2006. Further works are held in the British Museum collection. London (1970–73). As a child Cook was passionate about nature and learnt the names of trees, birds, fish and flowers. He spent countless hours near the river and woods in Oxford where he lived, feeling rooted through his experiences of nature. These are the things he loved as a child and is rediscovering as an artist living in Cornwall.

Collections Tate Gallery, London The Arts Council of Great Britain The British Museum, London Manchester City Art Gallery Deutsche Bank, London

Selected exhibitions Solo 2001: Luminous, Tate St Ives, Cornwall 2003: New Paintings, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London 2006: Art First, London 2008: Iridescence, Art First, London 2010: Under the Summer, The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall 2012: With Closed Eyes, Keslte Barton, Manaccan, Cornwall 2016: She lies within my sleep, Felix & Spear, London

Group 1976: The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London 2005: Mixed Doubles, Art First, London 2006: Drawing Inspiration: Contemporary British Drawing, Abbot Hall, Kendal 2007: Art Now, Tate St. Ives 2010: Meetings Of Dreams, The Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives 2012: Landscape, The Redfern Gallery, London