I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. - Nigel Cooke
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.
- Nigel Cooke
The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and it's a… - Nigel Cooke
The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and it's a…
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] i… - Nigel Cooke
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] i…
I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authe… - Nigel Cooke
I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authe…
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. - Nigel Cooke
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once. - Nigel Cooke
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.
The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling. - Nigel Cooke
The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. - Nigel Cooke
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be… - Nigel Cooke
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be…
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