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Michael Corkrey
Michael Corkrey studied at Leeds Polytechnic, 1982-85 and at
the Royal Academy Schools 1986-89. He was a John Player Award
winner in 1987 and 1989 at the National Portrait Gallery. His work
is highly sought after.
Since leaving the Royal Academy Schools in 1989, Michael
Corkrey has lived and worked in London. In his previous artistic incarnation, as a painter from life of nudes and portraits,
Michael won the prestigious Hunting Art Prize and has painted
portraits of sitters as diverse as Earl Spencer; the Spectator
‘low-life’ columnist Jeffrey Bernard; MPs and High Court Judges. Eschewing the more conventional and often generalized
forms of seascape painting, Corkrey focuses instead on the specific, arrested moments of the sea at its most extreme. Instants
normally lost in a split-second, but which are transformed into
powerful and epic images of haunting beauty that transport the
viewer into mysterious and rhapsodic visions of the sea.
In his wonderful recent series of pillow and leaf studies ,
Corkery captures a portrait of objects that haunt our memory ,
as we if witnessing and partaking in the ritual of time passing.
Pillow number 4
20 x 30 cm,
2021