Pass, 18x24, oil on canvas, 2009, Jacob Cooley Shadow, Cloud, 18x24, oil on canvas, 2009, Jacob Cooley
River At Dusk, 18x24, oil on canvas, 2008 Return, 12x12, oil on canvas, 2008 Yellow Rise, 18x24, oil on canvas, 2008
Edge of a Marsh, 12x42, oil on canvas, 2009, Jacob Cooley
Shine, 12x42, oil on canvas, 2009, Jacob Cooley
These paintings are informed by harmonious and hallowed places, landscapes about contemplation and the spirit but also about the transient, ephemeral characteristics of light and darkness and ultimately of life. This work attempts to capture and hold the instant when the orange of the sun is about to completely scatter into the diffused light of dusk or the thunderclouds move to entirely obscure the horizon. Moments.
I am revelling in what to me is basic, authentic and profoundly essential to issues of my consciousness: the infallible truths and deep-rooted perpetuity of landscape.