John  Cooke`s paintings and drawings are collected world wide. Figures, portraits and still-lifes are all included in his oeuvre but his landscapes are especially well known.  This book contains a collection of paintings of a region of outstanding natural beauty. The English Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales have been extolled in paint and print from Wordsworth`s “Daffodils” and Constable`s “Buttermere” to the more recent and light-hearted writings of Dales life by Gervaise Phinn.   “Landscapes of the Lake District and Dentdale”  contains a wealth of paintings of the region seen through the eyes of an artist who finds subjects to paint away from the more popular viewpoints.  Always it is a sense of light which dominates his work and always this is the overriding quality of these landscapes.  

ISBN 9781449052966 8.5 x 11