Chris Cook
b. Hong Kong
Chris Cook was born and grew up in Hong Kong. She emigrated to the UK in the early 1990s and pursued her artistic studies there. She received a 1st class Hon Degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University, Leicester, in 1998, and subsequently received her MA in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy Schools of Art in London in 2001. She also completed an MSc in Translation from Imperial College London in 2008.
Chris is currently working in Hong Kong as a practising artist and an art educator. Throughout her recent years living in Hong Kong, she has also travelled frequently throughout southeast Asia, soaking up and drawing in their cultural and aesthetic values as well as their use of colour in art, architecture and artefacts.
Chris Cook is interested in the instability of colour. She described it as a subtle shift of hues and intensity when juxtaposed with others. The cropped and repeated geometric shapes, especially triangles in various forms, are used to suggest movement as the diagonal lines lead one’s eye around and outside the paintings. Part of a shape extends right to the painting edges to suggest that it might be part of something else; another picture alongside the same series. Whilst the uncompromising triangle shapes indicate tension and movement, quiet and muted colours create balance and weight as if to anchor the shapes from floating away and thus they create a ‘quiet’ movement.
Gold, Blue & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 213 x 152 cm
Gold, Blue & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 213 x 152 cm
Mirror (Left)
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
Mirror (Left)
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
Mirror (Right)
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
Mirror (Right)
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Night - Silver & Deep Blue)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Night - Silver & Deep Blue)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Day - Silver & Blue)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Day - Silver & Blue)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Afternoon - Gold)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Afternoon - Gold)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Dusk - Red)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid (Dusk - Red)
Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Pyramid 5
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 5
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 6
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 6
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 7
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 7
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 8
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 8
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 9
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 9
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 10
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Pyramid 10
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Gold Green & Yellow
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Gold Green & Yellow
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Gold Green & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Gold Green & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Two Downwards Triangles
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Two Downwards Triangles
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Two Opposite Triangles
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Two Opposite Triangles
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Gold & Yellow
Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75 cm
Gold & Yellow
Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75 cm
Gold & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75 cm
Gold & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75 cm
Chris Cook 45 Amulets
45 Amulets
Acrylic on Paper, 90 x 75 cm
Reflection 1
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 1
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 2
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 2
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 3
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 3
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 4
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 4
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 5
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 5
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 6
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 6
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 7
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 7
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 8
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 8
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 9
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 9
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 10
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Reflection 10
Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Red & Grey
Acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Red & Grey
Acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Lilac & Gold
Acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Lilac & Gold
Acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Two Opposite Triangles (Pink & Orange)
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Two Opposite Triangles (Pink & Orange)
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Two Descending Triangles
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Two Descending Triangles
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Jade Green & Deep Red
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Jade Green & Deep Red
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Gold & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Gold & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Pink & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Pink & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 75 x 55 cm
Dark Brown & Pink
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Dark Brown & Pink
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Pink & Gold
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Pink & Gold
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Jade & Gold
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Jade & Gold
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Grey & Blue
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Grey & Blue
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Gold, White & Lilac
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Gold, White & Lilac
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Gold, Pink & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Gold, Pink & Grey
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Sleep 1
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 1
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 2
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm
Sleep 2
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm
Sleep 3
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Sleep 3
Acrylic on paper, 51 x 38 cm
Sleep 4
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 4
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 5
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 5
Acrylic on board, 25 x 20 cm
Sleep 6
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm
Sleep 6
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm
Gold, Silver & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm
Gold, Silver & Pink
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 cm