Maurice Cockrill
Elected to RCA 2001
Born Hartlepool,1936. Lives in London. Studied at Wrexham School of Art and the University of Reading. Member of the Royal Academy.
“The anatomy of the landscape - the River estuary, fields and woods, clouds, hills and mountains beyond is forever in flux, due not simply to the capriciousness of light and weather,but also in regard to whatever I, the artist, bring to it and hope to find there. Matisse said, ‘Exactitude is not truth’. My pictures are the landscape transfigured - separate utterances,complete-inthemselves although partial, that grope towards an understanding and expression of the spirit of this piece of the world that has held poetic meaning for me for over half a century.”