Maurice Cockrill

Maurice Cockrill is one of the most protean painters to have emerged in the U.K. His work is constantly evolving and has ranged from photo-realism to expressionism, from sexually charged landscapes to mythological subjects and near abstraction.

This, the first book to be published about the artist, brings together all the major groups and series of Cockrill's paintings created since the end of the 1980s, the period of his most mature and accomplished work. It emphasizes the consistency of themes, motifs, and vision underlying Cockrill's work of the past twelve years, as well as its sheer inventiveness and depth of meaning. This lavishly illustrated, engagingly written book leaves one in no doubt that Cockrill is one of the most original artists working in Britain today.

Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on contemporary art.

Nicholas Alfrey is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham. His catalog Maurice Cockrill: Paintings and Drawings, 1974-1994 was published in 1995.