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Martin Cooke
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Unsure if this surprisingly peaceful for #crimson painting is sweet enough for #SensoryArt. This is my first medium-scale artwork of 2025 in prep for a July exhibition.

Immaterial World (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 80cm

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #FebruArty #ArtYear #Art #OliveGreen
For the #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant theme, here's a small #expressionist #abstract #acrylic #artwork

Cross Purposes (2025)
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 cm

#art #acrylics #blue #orange
June 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
For #MountainMonday an abstracted recollection of a #Scottish #Munro outing

Pap of Glencoe (2025)
Acrylic and pen on canvas
50x 50 cm

#Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Art #Abstract #Scotland
April 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Recently completed

Portal (2025)
Acrylic, pen, pencil & charcoal on canvas
60 x 60cm

#AbstractApril #Acrylics #AbstractArt #ArtYear #AbstractLandscape
April 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A #Journey to the truth, in homage to the great Colin Dexter and his #InspectorMorse #Oxford detective novels:

The Jewel That Was Ours (2025)
Acrylic and paint pen on canvas
50 x 60 cm

#AbstractLandscape #BlueSkyArtShow #Acrylics #AbstractArt #Cityscape #AbstractPainting #ArtYear
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Seaborne (2025)
Acrylic and pen on canvas
50 x 60 cm

#AbstractLandscape #Seascape #Acrylics #AbstractArt #Art #ArtYear
March 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Storms over Jerez (2025)
Acrylic, pen and charcoal on paper
45 x 30cm

#Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #ArtYear
March 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The tallest human-made mound in Europe, constructed over 4300 years ago, lies #abandoned and enigmatic in the #Wiltshire countryside near #Avebury:

Silbury Hill (2023)
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 60cm

#BlueSkyArtShow #UNESCO #England #Prehistory #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #FebruArty #Acrylics
February 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I do occasionally use #turquoise, here paired with #magenta for an abstract view of a bike race, probably the Giro (roll on May!):

Peloton (2024)
Acrylic on card
17 x 11cm

#Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #FebruArty
February 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
For #ArtYear and #FebruArty, painted a couple of years back to celebrate hope that goes with a change of direction in the #Amazon

Regeneration (2023)
Acrylic on paper
25 x 25cm

#Rainforest #Brasil #Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt
February 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This is for #MountainMonday and possibly qualifies as pretty rough and rugged for #SensoryArt too:

Alta Montaña (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60cm
(private collection, UK)

#FebruArty #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Mountain #AbstractArt #Art
February 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I hope I can be forgiven this near #Monochromatic just-completed painting for #BlueSkyArtShow.

First Meditations (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm

#Coltrane #Architectural #FebruArty #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #Crimson
February 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Channelling my love of Nicolas de Staël's paintings for this small #Orange #FebruArty offering

A Day at the Beach (2024)
Acrylic on paper
15 x 11cm

#Heat #Summer #AbstractLandscape #Painting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #DeStael
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Unsure if this surprisingly peaceful for #crimson painting is sweet enough for #SensoryArt. This is my first medium-scale artwork of 2025 in prep for a July exhibition.

Immaterial World (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 80cm

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #FebruArty #ArtYear #Art #OliveGreen
February 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I don't have much for the #Rings theme of #FebruArty apart from this experiment in generating depth sensations from hue

Teem (2024)
Acrylic on paper
20 x 6cm

#Chromostereopsis #Shadow #Red #Blue #AbstractArt #Art
February 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For the #Reflections theme of #BlueSkyArtShow, a recollected view across Loch Lubnaig in the #Scottish #Highlands from the A84 road

Loch Lubnaig (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50cm

#Scotland #Mountain #Loch #Trossachs #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #FebruArty
February 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here's a recent gouache and ink vignette for #ArtYear and #FebruArty

Rust Belt (2025)
Acrylic gouache and pen on card
17 x 11cm

#Industry #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art
February 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
For #FebruArty #Purple, a loosely #Geology inspired abstract:

Garnetiforous (2024)
Acrylic on board
30 x 30cm

#Rock #Garnet #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Metamorphic
February 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
For the #Fuzzy day of #SensoryArt and #FebruArty, one of my #Irrepressible series:

Signal / Noise (2024)
Acrylic on card
13 x 13cm

#HopeNotFear #Expressionist #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Orange #Yellow #Black #Gestural
February 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
For the #light theme of #BlueSkyArtShow and #FebruArty

Lemonlight (2024)
Acrylic on card
21 x 13cm

#Theatre #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist #Purple #Yellow
February 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
For the final day of the very enjoyable and inspiring #JanuArty, something angular, spiky, and ice-breaking.

Tipping Point (2024)
Acrylic mixed media on paper
26 x 36cm

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist #Orange #Blue #Melting #ClimateEmergency
January 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Day 30 of #JanuArty is #Green, so here's something looking forward to #Spring

Primaveral (2024)
Acrylic mixed media on canvas
61 x 61cm
(private collection, UK)

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionism #Orange
January 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
For day 29 of #JanuArty a curvy tri-colour experiment in acrylic deglazing. The title (somewhat randomly but fittingly) comes from #IvoPapazov's frenetically marvellous 1989 album.

Orpheus Ascending (2024)
Acrylic on paper
30 x 30cm

#AbstractArt #Art #Expressionist #Red #Yellow #Blue
January 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
For day 28 of #JanuArty here's a small abstract composition showing a jumble of #flat blocks with an irregular one perched precariously

Blue Erratic (2024)
Acrylic ink on paper
12 x 12cm

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Erratic #Ink #Blue #Red #Expressionist
January 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
For red day of #JanuArty here's an artwork inspired by my time as a researcher in #Auditory processing:

Red Cognition (2023)
Matt and gloss enamel on paper
20 x 30cm

#AbstractArt #Art #Red #Green #Brainstem #Cortex #Activation
January 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
For #JanuArty #Broken day, a painting inspired by the ongoing eruptions in #Reykjanes, #Iceland, where the mid-Atlantic plate boundary rises above sea level.

Reykjanes (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 61cm

#AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #Geology
January 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM