Barrie Cooke archive: A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney reveals a vital creative friendship
25/11/20 07:24
A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney reveals a vital creative friendship
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/big-fish-hughes-heaney-cooke
Feeling nostalgic and celebratory today- posting these 3 portraits of Barrie Cooke in his honour- On the day an extraordinary archive is published released by Cambridge University’s Mark Wormald - It Documents an amazing trinity of creative friendships between Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke-A treasure trove of unseen/unpublished works and poems by all three. I was very lucky as a young painter to have wandered into their orbit and drank a bit of the heady wine.
Posting three portraits I did of Cooke 1997, 2009 and 2013 and some photos-
Barrie Cooke, 1997. Oil on Linen. 98 x 98 cm Niland Collection, The Model, Sligo
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/big-fish-hughes-heaney-cooke
Feeling nostalgic and celebratory today- posting these 3 portraits of Barrie Cooke in his honour- On the day an extraordinary archive is published released by Cambridge University’s Mark Wormald - It Documents an amazing trinity of creative friendships between Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke-A treasure trove of unseen/unpublished works and poems by all three. I was very lucky as a young painter to have wandered into their orbit and drank a bit of the heady wine.
Posting three portraits I did of Cooke 1997, 2009 and 2013 and some photos-
Barrie Cooke, 1997. Oil on Linen. 98 x 98 cm Niland Collection, The Model, Sligo
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/14/treasure-trove-of-unseen-hughes-and-heaney-writing-found
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/feral-friend-taught-heaney-hughes-art-wildness/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/14/cambridge-university-publish-share-unique-seamus-heaney-ted/
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/1113/1178047-seamus-heaney-ted-hughes-and-the-barrie-cooke-archive/
Posting three portraits I did of Cooke 1997, 2009 and 2013 and some photos-
1-Barrie Cooke, 1997. Oil on Linen. 98 x 98 cm Niland Collection, @modelsligo
2-Barrie Cooke, 2009. siting in my Sligo studio
3 - Barrie Cooke, 2009. Oil on Linen. 76 x 66 cm
4 - Last sitting photo- his last day in Sligo sitting
5-Last sitting: portrait of Barrie Cooke 2013 . Oil on Linen. 76 x 66 cm collection of @nationalgalleryofireland
6- a photo of Cooke with three of his portraits of @dorothy_cross , me and himself at a show in Cork sometime back in the day when All still had dark hair!
