Barrie Cooke 1931 — 2014
A keen angler, he was moved to depict the increasing pollution in our water system in a series of paintings he made in the 1990s. These were included in a major retrospective of his work that ran in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork to mark his 80th birthday in 2011.
Cooke was born in Cheshire, England in 1931 but spent most of his early years in Bermuda, Jamaica and the US. He hoped initially to pursue a career in biology, but abandoned that to study art history at Harvard University.
