Chris James Cooper
Parksville , British Columbia
Chris James Cooper BSc. Ecology, BArch., OAA., born 1956-died 2010
Message
“Inspired by a big sky over the Georgian Bay— and the underlying concept of the metaphor of being an island in a surrounding storm.” — Chris James Cooper
Nearly the entire canvas is sky — sweeping layers of cloud building above the Georgian Bay, a thin strip of warm granite at the bottom, one small island holding its place at the horizon. Chris chose an unusually tall, narrow format to give that sky exactly the room it demands.
The island is a metaphor. The storm is real. The instruction in the title — Be — is the whole point.
“Inspired by a big sky over the French river and the underlying concept of the metaphor of being an island in a surrounding storm.”- Chris James Cooper
His own words do the heavy lifting here. That note moves this from a beautiful landscape into something much more personal — and given the year he painted it, 2009, just one year before he died, the metaphor of holding your ground inside a surrounding storm carries real weight.
- Subject Matter: Landscape
