Brent
Cooke - Artist
Brent Cooke - Artist Biography
Brent's
love of nature is the inspiration in all of his artwork. Starting in
his teens, his works progressed from woodcarvings to photography to
soapstone works and now bronze sculptures. Brent strives for anatomical
accuracy and detail with each piece undertaken. It is important to him
that each piece conveys a story or engages the viewer by eliciting memories
of their own in the subject depicted. Brent began working in Marine
Biology at the Royal British Columbia Museum in 1973. Over the next
12 years he amassed an extensive underwater photographic file of 14,000
BC marine life images. Many of these won international awards and have
been published in numerous forms from coffee table books to posters,
to school textbooks. Since '88, as Director of Public Programs at the
Museum, Brent has been responsible for all Exhibits, Publications, Design/Graphics,
Multimedia, and Programming. Brent has been influenced by the Art Noveau/
Art Deco period of design and often those elements appear in his own
designs. He believes that a sculpture has been successful when the viewer
is drawn to it and has to touch it, making the appreciation of the piece
more complete. He also likes to use "negative space" to allow his sculpture
to appear light and delicate at times even though bronze is in itself
quite heavy.
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