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Born 1945 Cheltenham, England. Known for: Dreamlike, surrealist, figure (crowd) painting.
Pamela Jane Crook was born in Cheltenham, England in 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... Read full biography
Pamela Jane Crook was born in Cheltenham, England in 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... Read full biography
Pamela Jane Crook was born in Cheltenham, England in 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 as well as the work of Pamela Jane Crook, there is a feeling that something odd lies just beneath the surface: these... Read full biography
Pamela Jane Crook was born in Cheltenham, England in 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 as well as the work of Pamela Jane Crook, 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 Crook's almost defiant Britishness, it... Read full biography
Pamela Jane Crook was born in Cheltenham, England in 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 as well as the work of Pamela Jane Crook, 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 Crook's 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... Read full biography
