Pass, 18x24, oil on canvas, 2009, Jacob Cooley Shadow, Cloud, 18x24, oil on cavas, 2009, Jacob Cooley
Shine, 12x42, oil on canvas, 2009
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.