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Maurice Cockrill

Maurice Cockrill (1936 - 2013) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Maurice Cockrill is known for Abstract, mythological, figurative painting.

Maurice Cockrill was born in Hartlepool in County Durham. He studied at Wrexham Art School and attended University of Reading 1963-4. He then moved to Liverpool where he lived for 18 years, establishing himself as a painter and lectured at the Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. Cockrill’s Liverpool work employed Pop and Photo-Realist styles. Later he moved towards a more expressionistic figurative style in the 1980s, embarking on a striking series of paintings that were both challenging and visceral. The 1990s saw a renewed interest in landscape and his best works of this period show echoes of the English Neo-Romantics and earlier landscape styles. After exploring figurative art his work became progressively more abstract during the mid 1990s with the Generation series, before becoming completely abstract by the end of the decade. Although he has always been a very hard artist to categorise, there is a strong thematic thread linking all his mature work. His evolution f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2122 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Maurice Cockrill

   Maurice Cockrill  Born:  1936 - Hartlepool, England
Died:   2013
Known for:  Abstract, mythological, figurative painting
Name variants:  Maurice Cockerill

Maurice Cockrill was born in Hartlepool in County Durham. He studied at Wrexham Art School and attended University of Reading 1963-4. He then moved to Liverpool where he lived for 18 years, establishing himself as a painter and lectured at the Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. Cockrill’s Liverpool work employed Pop and Photo-Realist styles. Later he moved towards a more expressionistic figurative style in the 1980s, embarking on a striking series of paintings that were both challenging and visceral. The 1990s saw a renewed interest in landscape and his best works of this period show echoes of the English Neo-Romantics and earlier landscape styles. After exploring figurative art his work became progressively more abstract d  ...  Displaying 750 of 2122 characters.

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