By 2010, Chris had painted the Georgian Bay shoreline so many times that he knew it in his hands as much as his eyes. Nexus shows what that knowledge looks like when it’s set free — the pine, the granite, the sky reduced to pure gesture, colour, and movement. Of all the small canvases he made in his final months, this is the most abstract, and perhaps the most assured. The title — nexus, a point of connection — suggests what the painting enacts: the place where rock, tree, water, and sky meet and become one thing.
Additional Artworks
From Chris James Cooper
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Georgian Bay Sentinel, 2010
Oil On Canvas
30 x 120 x 1 in (76.2 x 304.8 x 2.54 cm)
$28,800
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Killarney Shoreline, Dusk, c. 2010
Oil On Canvas
20 x 16 x 1 in (50.8 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm)
$2,560
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Windswept, Killarney, c. 2010
Oil On Canvas
16 x 20 x 1 in (40.64 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm)
$2,560
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Unfinished Symphony: One of the Last Works, Georgian Bay (2010), c. 2010
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 x 1 in (76.2 x 101.6 x 2.54 cm)
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The Texture of Time II, 2010
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 x 1 in (40.64 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm)
$2,560
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The Texture of Time, 2010
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 x 1 in (40.64 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm)
$2,560
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Wind Swept Ridge, Georgian Bay, 2010
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 x 1 in (40.64 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm)
$2,560
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The Wind’s Eye, 2010
Oil on canvas
16 x 16 x 1 in (40.64 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm)