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Maurice Cockrill (b. 1936)
Flaming Heart
£3,500.00
Maurice Cockrill (b. 1936)
£3,500.00
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Professor Maurice Cockrill, RA, FBA (8 October 1936 – 1 December 2013) was a British painter and poet.
Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, he studied at Wrexham School of Art, North East Wales, then Denbigh Technical College and later the University of Reading from 1960-64. In Liverpool, where he lived for nearly twenty years from 1964, he taught at Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. He was a central figure in Liverpool’s artistic life, regularly exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery, before his departure for London in 1982. Cockrill’s Liverpool work was in line with that of John Baum, Sam Walsh and Adrian Henri, employing Pop and Photo-Realist styles, but later he moved towards Romantic Expressionism, as it was shown in his retrospective at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 1995. His poetry was published in magazines such as “Ambit” and “Poetry Review”.
He was formerly the Keeper of the Royal Academy, and as such managed the RA Schools of the Establishment as well as being a member of the Board and Executive Committee.
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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.
Maurice Cockrill (b. 1936)
£3,500.00