GARY COOK RI SGFA

“I always feel a deep connection and a sense of wellbeing when under the tree canopy. Being able to combine this joy with painting is such a privilege.”

Gary Cook

Gary Cook - Light Lines
Gary Cook - Light Lines
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Gary Cook - Receding Light
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Gary Cook - Last Light Above Bignor
Gary Cook - Last Light Above Bignor
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Gary Cook - Ice at the Top
Gary Cook - Ice at the Top
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Gary Cook - Following Ancient Paths
Gary Cook - Following Ancient Paths
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Gary Cook - Morning in Eartham
Gary Cook - Morning in Eartham
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Gary Cook - View to the Farm
Gary Cook - View to the Farm
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Gary Cook - Top of the Downs
Gary Cook - Top of the Downs
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Gary Cook - Roman Route
Gary Cook - Roman Route
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Gary Cook - Ancient Routes
Gary Cook - Ancient Routes
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Gary Cook - Shadows on Stane Street
Gary Cook - Shadows on Stane Street
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Gary Cook - High Path
Gary Cook - High Path
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Gary Cook - Yew Shade
Gary Cook - Yew Shade
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Gary Cook - Wooded Track
Gary Cook - Wooded Track
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Gary Cook - Dappled Slope
Gary Cook - Dappled Slope
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Gary Cook - Bright Light
Gary Cook - Bright Light
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Gary Cook - Autumn Light
Gary Cook - Autumn Light
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Gary Cook - Path Through the Trees
Gary Cook - Path Through the Trees
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Gary Cook - Summer at the Millpond
Gary Cook - Summer at the Millpond
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Gary Cook - Beech Track
Gary Cook - Beech Track
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Gary Cook - Summer Cedar
Gary Cook - Summer Cedar
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Gary Cook - Past the Giant
Gary Cook - Past the Giant
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Gary Cook - Upperton Oak
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Gary Cook - Watching
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Gary Cook - Hedgeline Giant
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Gary Cook - Pond Guardian
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Gary Cook - Shaded Oaks
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Gary Cook - Highpoint
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Gary Cook - Upwaltham Path
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Gary Cook - Path to the Top
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Gary Cook - Summer in the Lane
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Gary Cook - Puddles in the Lane
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Gary Cook - Twin Oaks
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Gary Cook - Upwaltham Cornfields
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Gary Cook - Park Nocturne
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Gary Cook - Hidden Ancient
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Gary Cook - Lord's Piece Heatwave
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Gary Cook - Sentinels
Gary Cook - Sentinels
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Petworth Park, Capability Brown
Gary Cook - The Rise, Petworth
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Gary Cook - Still Waters, Petworth
Gary Cook - Still Waters, Petworth
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Gary Cook - Hesworth Shade
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Gary Cook - Heat on Hesworth Common
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Gary Cook - Petworth Chimneys
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Gary Cook - Upperton Monument
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Gary Cook - Petworth Oak (1120) No.6
Gary Cook - Petworth Oak (1120) No.6
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Petworth House, Petworth Park, Capability Brown
Gary Cook - Low Sun, Petworth
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Gary Cook - Spreading Shadows, Petworth
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Gary Cook - Ascent, Petworth
Gary Cook - Ascent, Petworth
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GARY COOK RI SGFA

Gary Cook is an elected member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) where he has twice been awarded 'Best in Show' at their annual exhibitions. He is an associate member of The Arborealists. He writes regularly for Resurgence & Ecologist magazine and the Dorset Magazine. He sits on the councils of the RI and SGFA.

He graduated from Bournemouth in 1987 and was made a fellow of the university in 1999. He is an environmental painter who explores our complicated relationship with and often detrimental impact on nature. The combination of naturalistic painting and narrative script that characterise his watercolours are a direct result of his background in the newspaper industry where he was an associate editor and the senior artist for The Sunday Times for 26 years, winning many international awards for his illustrations.

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“Working for a newspaper, I often produced diagrams highlighting environmental problems. In the last decade as a painter, including an environmental message in each piece has been very important to me. For example, oak trees, which are under threat, provide the habitat for around 2,200 different species from bats to beetles and lichens to mammals. The names of some of these species are discreetly included in my paintings.

“I always feel a deep connection and a sense of wellbeing when under the tree canopy. Being able to combine this joy with painting is such a privilege.

”I really enjoy painting the amazing trees in the parklands of Petworth House. There is an incredible 900 year old oak in the grounds and I relished the challenge of capturing on paper the strength of its trunk, a remarkable nine metres round.”.