Artist     Maurice Cockrill
Title      Yield
Date      2000's
object   Painting
Media   gouache
Size      114.5 x 84cm
Ref         955

Purchased in RWA Naked exhibition in 2004

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Yield
Maurice Cockrill is one of the most protean painters to have emerged in the UK since the War. Restless, lyrical and challenging, his work is constantly evolving, defying conventional categorization, and has ranged from photorealism to expressionism, and from sexually charged landscapes to mythological subjects and near abstraction.

Always at odds with both the mainstream and the avant garde, owing to his commitment to painting and the notion of skilled work, Cockrill is nothing if not rigorous in his approach to his art. In 1968, already in his early thirties, he destroyed everything he had produced up to that date and started again from scratch. Within twenty years the gamble had paid off. Since the end of the 1980s, he has worked through the period of his most mature and accomplished work which includes 'Generation', 'Wheat', 'Song of the Earth', 'Place of Fire' and 'Four Elements', among other series, so emphasizing the consistency of themes, motifs and vision underlying Cockrill's more recent work, as well as its sheer inventiveness and depth of meaning.

from 'Maurice Cockrill' Marco Livingstone & Nicholas Alfrey, Merrell, I SBN I 85894 180- 6

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