Barrie Cooke — Abstract Artworks
Jul 28, 2021
Barrie Cooke (1931–2014) was an English-born Irish abstract expressionist painter He was born in Cheshire in 1924, but lived in Ireland since 1954 until his death in 2014. Brought up in Jamaica and Bermuda, Cooke moved to the US as a teenager and studied art history and biology at Harvard University. He was a major figure in the development of painting in Ireland, an environment which he found offered him fertile ground for his lifelong love of nature, and his twin passions of painting and fishing.
