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John Cooper’s spontaneous art, a fixture of the Kootenay Lake region of British Columbia for the past forty years, is an individual compendium of 20th-century art movements.
John Cooper at his home in Queens Bay Townsite, Kootenay Lake, BC, Canada (19th September, 2008)
Stories about John Cooper are as abundant and provocative as his paintings. Like Toad Rock or Mount Loki—the monumental landscape icons he likes to paint around Queen’s Bay, the tiny benchland community just past Balfour on Kootenay Lake where he lives—certain themes reoccur, steady as a pulse. These are rooted in Expressionism, Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, all the early modern art movements, which are also the themes of his life.
