Maurice Cockrill was born in Hartlepool in County Durham. He studied at Wrexham Art School and attended University of Reading 1963-4. He then moved to Liverpool where he lived for 18 years, establishing himself as a painter and lectured at the Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. Cockrill’s Liverpool work employed Pop and Photo-Realist styles. Later he moved towards a more expressionistic figurative style in the 1980s, embarking on a striking series of paintings that were both challenging and visceral. The 1990s saw a renewed interest in landscape and his best works of this period show echoes of the English Neo-Romantics and earlier landscape styles. After exploring figurative art his work became progressively more abstract d...