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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A little late for #GreenSat but appropriate for #OrangeSun, this is a new painting to be exhibited at #Rothesay Library on the Isle of #Bute, #Scotland in June. Green Heart Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm #AbstractLandscape #Art #Acrylics #AcrylicPainting #ColorADay #Heart #Painting

Abstract landscape consisting of shades of orange, green and blue with dashes of pink and darker areas, made up largely of closed shapes reminiscent of fields seen from above.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Gearing up for the Isle of #Bute Artists' Collective summer studio trail, 18-19 July, #Scotland Untitled Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60cm #acrylics #art #painting #abstractart #abstract #expressionist

Abstract composition predominantly in orange and green against a pale background with both angular and sweeping marks massed on the left.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#AbstractLandscape loosely inspired by a view of #Laguardia (La Rioja, Spain) Laguardia (2026) Acrylic ink and pen on card 25 x 19cm #AbstractArt #Acrylics #Liquitex #Art

Abstracted landscape in reds and greens with strip of monumental architecture across the upper part.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Something from a recent exhibition "Ebb & Flow" on the Isle of #Bute, #Scotland Slack Tide (2025) Acrylic on card 19 x 27cm #Abstractia #MountainMonday #MinimalMonday #ClassicMono #AbstractLandscape #SeaScape #AbstractArt #Liquitex #Acrylics

Abstract seascape depicting a view across a tidal body of water, in blacks and yellows.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Rather belatedly joining the fun, here's something for day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar, in #AcrylicGouache and #PoscaPen on card (35 x 26cm) #Expressionism #AbstractArt #Cityscape #Liquitex #Art #Painting

Gouache and pen depicting an abstracted cityscape with blocks and wedges of predominantly reds and blues.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For #MountainMonday an abstracted recollection of a #Scottish #Munro outing Pap of Glencoe (2025) Acrylic and pen on canvas 50x 50 cm #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Art #Abstract #Scotland

Mountain-scape with succession of receding ridges in purples, greens, pinks with touches of light turquoise and yellow. Marks indicate patches of scree.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Recently completed Portal (2025) Acrylic, pen, pencil & charcoal on canvas 60 x 60cm #AbstractApril #Acrylics #AbstractArt #ArtYear #AbstractLandscape

Abstract cityscape/landscape in subdued ivory and ochre tones with blocks of viridian and yellow highlights, along with darker vertical and horizontal linear marks and a few quadrants and scrawls.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A #Journey to the truth, in homage to the great Colin Dexter and his #InspectorMorse #Oxford detective novels: The Jewel That Was Ours (2025) Acrylic and paint pen on canvas 50 x 60 cm #AbstractLandscape #BlueSkyArtShow #Acrylics #AbstractArt #Cityscape #AbstractPainting #ArtYear

Portrait-orientation abstract painting predominantly in oranges and blues, with flashes of pinks and reds, and expressive architectural hints.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Storms over Jerez (2025) Acrylic, pen and charcoal on paper 45 x 30cm #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #ArtYear

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The tallest human-made mound in Europe, constructed over 4300 years ago, lies #abandoned and enigmatic in the #Wiltshire countryside near #Avebury: Silbury Hill (2023) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60cm #BlueSkyArtShow #UNESCO #England #Prehistory #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #FebruArty #Acrylics

A portrait orientation bi-colour (cobalt teal and naphthol red) composition representing in an abstract way a flat-topped, straight-sided mound. The painting is composed of blocks of colour in three layers, with expressionist markings within each layer, and linking the blocks, and the mound, to the earth and sky.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I do occasionally use #turquoise, here paired with #magenta for an abstract view of a bike race, probably the Giro (roll on May!): Peloton (2024) Acrylic on card 17 x 11cm #Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #FebruArty

A landscape format bi-colour composition made of blocks of magenta tones backed off with turquoise blocks, overlain with uniform width curvilinear quasi-parallel marks. Some blocks have small rectangular holes where the background shows through.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For #ArtYear and #FebruArty, painted a couple of years back to celebrate hope that goes with a change of direction in the #Amazon Regeneration (2023) Acrylic on paper 25 x 25cm #Rainforest #Brasil #Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt

A square format acrylic painting showing an abstracted view of lush vegetation in shades of green, mustard yellow, pale and bright pink, with a darker crimson framing. Dark green stripes and a modest amount of paint splatter add texture.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is for #MountainMonday and possibly qualifies as pretty rough and rugged for #SensoryArt too: Alta Montaña (2024) Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60cm (private collection, UK) #FebruArty #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Mountain #AbstractArt #Art

Square format canvas with abstracted mountain scenery consisting of a set of ridges ending in high mountains in purple, green, yellow and pale orange. The texture is highly scarred and rough with linear marks, scrapes and scratches.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I hope I can be forgiven this near #Monochromatic just-completed painting for #BlueSkyArtShow. First Meditations (2025) Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100cm #Coltrane #Architectural #FebruArty #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #Crimson

A square format canvas, placed against a fireplace for scale, made up primarily of blocks in crimson hues, with a lighter zone with olive greens and pinks in the upper right. Sparse dark sweeping arches, horizontals and verticals complete the composition.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Channelling my love of Nicolas de Staël's paintings for this small #Orange #FebruArty offering A Day at the Beach (2024) Acrylic on paper 15 x 11cm #Heat #Summer #AbstractLandscape #Painting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #DeStael

Landscape-oriented abstract landscape composed of mainly solid blocks of orange-brown and grey-blue hues, with a highly-saturated deep orange block right of centre. The upper right corner is made up of various tones of blue. The white of the paper shows through at the edges of some blocks.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Unsure if this surprisingly peaceful for #crimson painting is sweet enough for #SensoryArt. This is my first medium-scale artwork of 2025 in prep for a July exhibition. Immaterial World (2025) Acrylic on canvas 60 x 80cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #FebruArty #ArtYear #Art #OliveGreen

A medium-sized portrait-orientated abstract painting, displayed in a white frame atop a marble fireplace. The canvas is composed mainly of crimson, with somewhat lighter tones in the upper right, along with blocks of pale olive green. Thin dark linear marks run vertically, along with thicker more diffuse curved marks in the low third.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I don't have much for the #Rings theme of #FebruArty apart from this experiment in generating depth sensations from hue Teem (2024) Acrylic on paper 20 x 6cm #Chromostereopsis #Shadow #Red #Blue #AbstractArt #Art

A wide-format strip showing red hollow circles (rings) on a blue background, along with some green discs and blue hollow disc shadows and linear marks indicating motion. The red circles form a compact grouping in the centre of the strip.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For the #Reflections theme of #BlueSkyArtShow, a recollected view across Loch Lubnaig in the #Scottish #Highlands from the A84 road Loch Lubnaig (2024) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm #Scotland #Mountain #Loch #Trossachs #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #FebruArty

A square format abstracted landscape. The lower part is occupied by the waters of the loch while most of the upper parts shows the lumpy mountainside rising from the loch. Up close the water and mountainside are highly textured, superficially dour in hue, but with dabs of unusual colouring.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Here's a recent gouache and ink vignette for #ArtYear and #FebruArty Rust Belt (2025) Acrylic gouache and pen on card 17 x 11cm #Industry #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art

An ambiguous industrial/riverine landscape consisting of a sparse, loosely connected collection of imagined structures delineated in black ink pen on a base of burnt sienna gouache forms.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

For #FebruArty #Purple, a loosely #Geology inspired abstract: Garnetiforous (2024) Acrylic on board 30 x 30cm #Rock #Garnet #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Metamorphic

Square format abstract inspired by a section through a metamorphic-type rock. The base layer contains viridian green, overlaid with purple, but with lighter almost pink angular strands that appear to float above and at time be sandwiched between rock layers. Square and hexagonal purple shapes form a stepping-stone-like progression across one of the diagonals. The lower right contains an idiosyncratic blue strand surrounding a particularly dark purple patch.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

For the final day of the very enjoyable and inspiring #JanuArty, something angular, spiky, and ice-breaking. Tipping Point (2024) Acrylic mixed media on paper 26 x 36cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist #Orange #Blue #Melting #ClimateEmergency

Portrait-oriented abstract composition in light blues and purples, depicting an icy landscape seen from above, topped with contradictory large jagged orange and yellow-orange shapes with spiky ice-breaking forms. Striations formed by linear marks in pen and comb create a feeling of strain and tension.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day 30 of #JanuArty is #Green, so here's something looking forward to #Spring Primaveral (2024) Acrylic mixed media on canvas 61 x 61cm (private collection, UK) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionism #Orange

A square format canvas in a white frame. The composition is abstract, with green and orange tones, mainly in large patches, against a white background. Thin green lines bisect some of the orange segments. These have a similar luminosity to the orange and as a consequence lead to a slight perceptual vibration.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For day 29 of #JanuArty a curvy tri-colour experiment in acrylic deglazing. The title (somewhat randomly but fittingly) comes from #IvoPapazov's frenetically marvellous 1989 album. Orpheus Ascending (2024) Acrylic on paper 30 x 30cm #AbstractArt #Art #Expressionist #Red #Yellow #Blue

A square format abstract displayed in a black frame with a narrow white passe-partout. The painting is composed of 3 layers of acrylic paint, each one deglazed with water to produce a tangle of multicoloured curves revealing parts of each of the lower layers. The bare white of the paper that survives 3 successive deglazing steps appears in a few parts.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

For day 28 of #JanuArty here's a small abstract composition showing a jumble of #flat blocks with an irregular one perched precariously Blue Erratic (2024) Acrylic ink on paper 12 x 12cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Erratic #Ink #Blue #Red #Expressionist

A small square abstract consisting of a number of semi-transparent reddish blocks on a light blue background. An irregular blue block, the erratic, is balanced precariously on the right hand red block. The blue appears to sink into the surface of the painting. Expressionist marks, both additive and subtractive, along with ink sitting in natural depressions of the coarse paper, add texture.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For red day of #JanuArty here's an artwork inspired by my time as a researcher in #Auditory processing: Red Cognition (2023) Matt and gloss enamel on paper 20 x 30cm #AbstractArt #Art #Red #Green #Brainstem #Cortex #Activation

Portrait-oriented abstract composition with relatively sparse red enamel paint ovals and discs, and vertical runs, masked by a dense forest of dark green matt enamel paint in the upper third. The artwork represents activation in the nuclei of the auditory brainstem, with binaural inputs from the left and right auditory peripheries, running all the way up to the auditory cortex.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

For #JanuArty #Broken day, a painting inspired by the ongoing eruptions in #Reykjanes, #Iceland, where the mid-Atlantic plate boundary rises above sea level. Reykjanes (2024) Acrylic on canvas 61 x 61cm #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #Geology

An abstract landscape in a white frame. The composition is an irregular grid of varying sizes and shapes, almost stained glass like, with a predominantly green hue resulting from a yellow ochre glaze over blue, with touches of pink and red, and expressionistic marks.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the #pattern theme of #BlueSkyArtShow a meditative piece inspired by the painting process of #AgnesMartin. 162 Squares Acrylic ink on board 30 x 30cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Squares #Grid #Ink

An imperfect 13x13 grid of mainly hollow hand-drawn squares with hues from a limited palette (blue/ochre) of acrylic inks. Each square was produced using a dropper, loaded with a different ink mix of varying dilutions, producing a range of hues and saturations. Some squares join or bleed into their neighbour. The whole exercise of repetitive actions with subtlely different outcomes is highly meditative and calming, and was inspired by a video by Corey D'Augustine.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The alt-text explains why this fits the #Opposites theme of #JanuArty Strata (2023) Acrylic on paper 20 x 25cm (private collection, UK) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Geology #Orthogonal #CrossSection #NaphtholRed #CobaltTeal #Liquitex

I struggled to find something for the opposites theme, then remembered that I painted a small series of abstracts based on opposing hues (naphthol red and cobalt teal) and constructed using bands of paint running in opposing directions. Specifically, this abstract is composed of vertical bands of cobalt teal mixed with varying amounts of medium, overlain with horizontal strips of naphthol red, again of varying strengths. The gaps between bands - most vividly in the lower right - show up as vibrant pinks, and elsewhere as ghostly ribbons hovering above the blues. I no longer have the original, just this poor quality photo.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Something for #Monochrome #JanuArty day. The cover of Georges #Pérec's novel 'Life: A user's manual' may have provided an unconscious inspiration. Mind Palace (2025) Acrylic gouache and pen on card 11 x 17cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #BurntSienna #Liquitex #Architecture

Portrait-oriented pen drawing of an imagined series of spaces piled atop one another as if seen in a cut-away view, with arches, doorways, steps, ladders, buttresses and less recognisable objects. Part, perhaps 50%, is coloured with a narrow range of shades of burnt sienna acrylic gouache mixed with matt medium.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For #JanuArty #Happy day, an abstract composition channelling #Synaesthesia: Symphony No. 1 (2023) Acrylic ink and paint on card 11 x 17cm #Expressionism #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Blue #Froth

Abstract composition with a predominantly deep red-orange centre, transitioning out to yellow and yellow-orange corners, overlaid with green and blue tonal patches (also white) with a frothy appearance, revealing the underlayer. Lying on top of all this a deep blue sweep from lower mid-right to upper-centre, creating a sensation of a gash, and thinner streaks of red and black ink, and some paint spatter.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For the #primary day of #JanuArty, red and blue acrylic ink, overpainted with yellow ochre to create a range of hues. The title isn't very timely, but maybe this will be a #bluesky dawn. Blue Dawn (2024) Acrylic ink and paint on card 24 x 32cm #AbstractArt #Art #Blue #Yellow #Ink

A base layer of blue and red acrylic inks, variously dripped, shoved around, combed and flattened, left to dry then splashed with acrylic matte medium in various densities and rapidly overpainted with a harmonising coat of yellow ochre acrylic paint to create greens, purples and orange in varying proportions.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Here's an underwater contribution to the #liquid theme of #JanuArty: Seamount (2023) Acrylic on paper 50 x 70cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Blue #Green #Red #Depth

A somewhat sombre abstract composition consisting of blocks in green shades in the lower sub-diagonal, with dark markings and expressionist/symbolic markings in blues, and with mainly blue shades above the diagonal. Smaller bright red and pink shapes lift off the surface to help push back the green-blue hues, generating a sense of murky depths that one could swim into and explore.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For the #yellow themed #JanuArty something which I hope warms the visual cortex at least: Winter Sun (2025) Acrylic on card 11 x 17cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #AbstractLandscape #MattMedium #Expressionist #Black #Orange

A portrait-oriented abstract composition made up of irregular patches ranging from mid-yellow to bright orange-yellow against a predominantly white background, cut across by vigorous dense black lines, themselves scratched through to reveal the colour beneath, along with a surprisingly hairy-edged, thick, almost transparent black sweeping in a broad curve from mid-left to lower-mid-right. An even more transparent black in the sky area completes the composition.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sadly I don't have any animal pics for #JanuArty apart from this #expressionist #jellyfish resulting from an early experiment into illusory depth-from-colour: Medusa and friends (2022) Acrylic on board 20 x 30cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Orange #Blue #Seaweed #Chromostereopsis

Flaming orange jellyfish making its way past a patch of blue swirling stripes of seaweed, against a background of blue sea populated in its upper reaches with layers of ghostly jellyfish.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

For #plant day of #JanuArty an #enamel green and red swirly composition inspired by artworks of Franciszka #Themerson at the #Whitechapel: Green Entanglement (2023) Enamel paint on paper 20 x 30cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist

Abstract plant-like object made up of green and red enamel paint on paper. The background consists of pressed green-veined leaf shapes while the foreground has spirals and swirls of red and green. Thin lines of enamel applied with a chopstick held at a very specific angle to produce an even flow of paint. Inspired by enamel artworks of Franciszka Themerson.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For the #pink day 11 of #JanuArty, a memory of climbing the #Munro Sgòr Gaoith in the #Scottish #Cairngorms with views across to the muscular pinky granites of #Braeriach. Pink Granite (2025) Acrylic paint and pen on card 34 x 26cm #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Scotland

A mountain scene from near the summit of the Scottish Munro Sgòr Gaoith, accessed from Glen Feshie. The foreground, sloping from mid-upper left to mid-lower right, is made up of large irregular pink and cream patches with hints of bright green and moss/lichen yellow. In the background is the main Cairngorm plateau with the mountain Braeriach prominent, with muscular pinky granite and its screes, darker green zones and purply regions. The painting contains many linear marks produce by subtraction and addition.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

For the #BlueSkyArtShow, #layers of #strata and #history inspired this #AbstractLandscape painting of the #Etemenanki #Ziggurat (now in ruins) in #AncientBabylon by the #Euphrates river. Etemenanki (2023) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60cm #AbstractArt #CobaltTeal #NaphtholRed #Liquitex

An abstract composition dominated by naphthol red rectangles in the lower third and cobalt teal in the upper third. A jumble of blocks reaching into the sky towards a red sun occupies the left side. The ruined edifice of the ziggurat is anchored into the ground with expressive linear marks, and the Euphrates river is represented on the right.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Not entirely #blue for day 10 of #JanuArty -- but #magenta has a lot of blue too (is my excuse): Reef (2024) Acrylic on card 11 x 13cm #Art #AbstractArt #Coral #Gestural #Seaweed #Algas

Abstracted view of a reef fragment made up of broad gestural strokes in magentas, pinks and purples against a blue background with green seaweedy hints.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I've always loved the raw materiality of paint surfaces when viewed up close. For the #texture theme of day 9 #JanuArty here's an abstract inspired by minerals in rocks Slice (2024) Acrylic paint, ink and medium on card 11 x 17cm #Art #AbstractArt #RawUmber #PaynesGray #Liquitex #Ink

An abstract composition resulting from smears of Payne's Grey overlain with copious amounts of acrylic gloss medium and transparent raw umber acrylic ink, resulting in some opulent gold, silver/platinum and bronze hues. A multitude of surface textures -- swirls, wisps, streaks, scrapes and stripes -- emerge after applying this mix of media with various tools.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

For day 8 of #JanuArty here's an abstract composition with various tonal levels in predominantly orange and blue. Mirage (2023) Acrylic on paper 50 x 70cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Blue #Desert #Sand #Sky #WarmTones #Shimmer

Abstract composition made up in the main of various sized rectangles in predominantly light tones of orange and blue, with a light glaze and some marking through the glaze. There is the suggestion of a potential horizon line with a shimmering ambiguous slanted trapezoidal shape just below the centre of the painting. This one looks shockingly different under natural and artificial light -- in the latter case, as photographed here, the warm tones are emphasised.

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Martin Cooke @martincooke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

For the #marks theme of day 7 of #JanuArty: Bebop (2023) Mixed acrylic media on canvas 50 x 80cm (private collection, UK) #Expressionist #Bebop #Jazz #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Music #Improvisation

Swirling curves in black, white and red lie on top of a vibrant base of oranges and pale grey-blues, with patches of red and green. The surface contains other marks including paint spatter, meshes, arcs and triangles.

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