Maurice Cockrill

Maurice Cockrill Born Hartlepool,1936.Lives in London. Studied at Wrexham School of Art and the University of Reading. Member of the Royal Academy. Elected to RCA 2001. “The anatomy of the landscape - the River estuary,fields and woods,clouds,hills and mountains beyond is forever in flux,due not simply to the capriciousness of light and weather,but also in regard to whatever I,the artist,bring to it and hope to find there. Matisse said,‘Exactitude is not truth’. My pictures are the landscape transfigured - separate utterances,complete-inthemselves although partial,that grope towards an understanding and expression of the spirit of this piece of the world that has held poetic meaning for me for over half a century.”

Ganed yn Hartlepool,1936.Mae’n byw yn Llundain. Astudiodd yn Ysgol Gelf Wrecsam a Phrifysgol Reading. Aelod o’r Academi Frenhinol. Etholwyd i’r AFG 2001. “Mae anatomi’r tirwedd – moryd yr Afon,caeau a choed, cymylau,bryniau a’r mynyddoedd tu hwnt iddynt – yn newid yn barhaus,nid dim ond yn ôl mympwy’r golau a’r tywydd,ond hefyd o ran yr hyn yr wyf fi,yr arlunydd,yn ei gyfrannu iddo ac yn gobeithio ei ddarganfod ynddo. Dywedodd Matisse,‘Nid gwirionedd mo manyldeb’. Tirwedd wedi’i weddnewid a geir yn fy lluniau i – sylwadau ar wahân,yn gyflawn ynddynt eu hunain er nad ydynt ond yn rhannol,sy’n ymbalfalu i ddeall a mynegi ysbryd y darn hwn o’r byd sydd wedi cyfleu ystyr barddonol i mi ers dros hanner canrif.”