Jeannine Cook

Jeannine Cook (born in 1944), is a contemporary metalpoint^[1] artist who works from her studio in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, after living in the United States. Encouraged to concentrate on art rather than languages and freelance journalism by Jeanne Nelson Szabo,^[2] a former Professor of Art at University of California Los Angeles, Cook initially exhibited watercolours in Westchester, New York, and elsewhere in New York from 1979 onwards.

Cook was quickly accepted for membership in such artists’ organisations as the Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Artists Club, New York, and the American Artists Professional League, New York, with which she often exhibited. She was subsequently selected for membership in the National Association of Women Artists, The Pen & Brush in New York, and Women’s Caucus for Art, as well as being a Signature Member of the Georgia Watercolor Society.

In 1983, Cook moved with her husband to coastal Georgia, where the couple spent two years building a post-and-beam house bordering on salt water marshes. During this period, she set aside her art practice. When she returned to art, she began to draw in metalpoint, a medium little known amongst both artists and the general public. Soon Cook was exhibiting in solo shows in local museums and galleries in Georgia and beyond, and her drawings and watercolours began to enter numerous museum and private collections.^[3] Her work was acquired by the Georgia Art Acquisition Program for Gainesville College in 1986. In 2003, she was awarded a public art commission from the Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta, Georgia. By 2011, Cook was increasingly specialising in drawing and painting far less in watercolours.

Cook's drawing practice has continued both in the United States and Europe, with frequent solo and group exhibitions on both continents. Her work is now represented in such museums as the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and BAMPFA, in Berkeley, California, among many others around the world.

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  Fallen Palmetto, silverpoint, Jeannine Cook
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  Limestone Lace, silverpoint, goldpoint, Jeannine Cook
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  Miró's Pine Tree 2, silverpoint, Plike paper, Jeannine Cook
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  Pierres de Chablis, silverpoint, silver leaf, watercolour, Jeannine Cook
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  Cork Oak Contours, goldpoint, silverpoint, Jeannine Cook