ARTIST: Pamela Jane Crook (British, born 1945)
NAME: Fishers of Men
YEAR: 1994
MEDIUM: acrylic on board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Frame has minor scratches.
SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 19 inches / 35 x 47 cm
FRAME SIZE: 19 x 24 inches / 47 x 60 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower right and on verso
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116282
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Pamela Jane Crook (British, born 1945)
‘Ever since Hogarth there have been British artists who have reflected on life as it is really lived, but viewed from the grotesque side. In the twentieth century this has taken on an added intensity one might call expressionist in the work of artists like Stanley Spencer, William Roberts and Carel Weight. As in their work so in Crook’s, there is a feeling that something odd lies just beneath the surface: these ordinary people going about their ordinary business are somehow set apart, irradiated by a strange otherworldly light; for all their ordinariness, they are marching to a different drummer. And in fact, despite her almost defiant Britishness, it is not by chance that she has worked so much with French galleries and is so highly valued abroad. The strangeness in her works may also recall a very different order of strangeness, that of Surrealists like the great Belgian Delvaux, master of moonlit mystery. Crook’s paintings have the unexpectedness of real life and the hallucinatory clarity of a dream. The art has excellent connections, but finally it stands on its own feet and confidently possesses its own personal world.’