The natural world is Jonathan Delafield Cook's deepest inspiration, and his works reflect the complex beauty of the world that surround us, from animate to inanimate elements. Cook's exquisite charcoal drawings of a variety of subjects - cows, flowers, nests, fish, barnacles - have a photographic quality and are made with a remarkable attention to detail. Much of his time is spent in research collections of museums, and he has a strong interest in the areas where art and science overlap. Direct references to a long tradition of rigour and close observation in classification and taxonomic illustration are made, but in the end Cook is engaged in creating works of art for their graphic, abstract or tonal potential.
Jonathan Delafield Cook: New Drawings
Past exhibition
