John Kingsley Cook
Birth Date: 1911
School: Central School of Arts & Crafts
Kingsley Cook attended the RA Schools where he won a gold medal and a travelling scholarship, which he used to visit Paris and Rome. He also studied in the Book Production Department at the Central School where he produced some wood-engraved illustrations to Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' (Methuen; 1934). During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Navy and was held as a prisoner-of-war after being shipwrecked off North Africa. A collection of seven poems was published as Aftermath (1986) and contained wood engravings started after the war from drawings made in London and Bristol. Cook also painted figure subjects in oil. He exhibited at the RSA and the RWA.
Author: JS