David Mackie Cook trained at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Dundee under Alberto Morrocco and David McClure. Since graduating, he has followed his own path of visionary works which has won him a number of awards including the Guthrie Award at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1982.
Defined as an ‘art brut’ painter, he has transformed the ruined remains of a fisherman’s hamlet into a garden of figures and creatures, carving driftwood and fusing cement and fragments of crockery.
David has worked with Fraser Gallery for many, many years and shows in a number of key galleries across the UK and overseas. He has had successful shows at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh in 2009 and again in 2017.