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Maurice Cockrill (b. 1936)

Andromeda

SKU: 11143

Watercolour. 

Signed and dated 1983


Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 19.4cm x Width – 26.7cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
A gift of the artist to the present owner

In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the king of Aethiopia, Cepheus, and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that she is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia as divine punishment.

 

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THE ARTIST

Maurice Cockrill
Maurice
Cockrill
b. 1936

Painter and teacher, born in Hartlepool, County Durham. He had a peripatetic childhood and after leaving school did a variety of jobs. In the late 1952s he studied painting at evening classes, then in 1960 was accepted by Denbigh Technical College to study painting full-time, attending University of Reading, 1963-4. Taught, including Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. Took part in group shows including Neptune and Everyman Theatres in Liverpool, Bluecoat Gallery there, Liverpool Academy, Portal Gallery and RCamA. Also showed one-man in Liverpool and in the early 1980s moved to the metropolis, showing at Bernard Jacobson Gallery. Cockrill’s Liverpool work was in line with that such artists as Sam Walsh and Adrian Henri, employing Pop and Photo-Realist styles. Later, he moved towards Romantic Expressionism, as shown in his retrospective at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1995. Cockrill also published poetry in magazines such as Ambit and Poetry Review. Elected RA, 1999. In 2002, Belgrave Gallery held a retrospective of Cockrill’s paintings from 1978-98, Archeus showing En Plein Air Paintings, 2004.

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