My most recent personal commission … July 2024 … has been for an international best selling author and BAFTA nominated screenwriter of a major motion picture, for display in his home. Describing Ian’s work the author wrote:
“Cooper’s work belongs to a school that he himself calls “fluid art”. He pours pigments onto canvases, mixing them himself with different liquid mediums to alter their density and viscosity. Then he brings them into contact with each other using his own specially developed techniques. Because the colours all have very different physical compositions they remain distinct in the finished work, interlaced but separate. The effect is fractal, complex and nested like the scales on a butterfly’s wings or the stones in a mosaic.
Cooper sees his work as entirely abstract – the paintings pure explorations of form and colour – but the temptation to see something in them is almost irresistible. A canvas dominated by reds and oranges looks like a volcanic eruption. Another, whose blue cells are woven through with black and white, brings to mind ocean swells. They draw your eye in and almost compel you to find pattern in their endless play of shape and hue.
Anyway, we contacted Ian and commissioned a piece. He asked us about our colour and space preferences and after some creative discussion he suggested a triptych. His process included painting a whole range of six-inch “tests” so he could sound us out on the choice of pigments and the different ways of combining and manipulating them on the canvas. To say we’re happy with the results is an understatement.”
Exclusivity is the key to my work. My innovative acrylic fluid paintings can be commissioned to any size and colour to reflect any brand, corporate house style, or colour scheme / soft furnishings in your home, office or business premises.
Take a look at all the art on the site and if you see one of my paintings that you like, we can discuss a budget that fits and I can then create one for you that will be similar. Just contact me for a no obligation discussion … ian@iancooper.co.uk
In the corporate world, I am happy to collaborate with interior designers, marketing directors and art buyers to help create a powerful visual impression in an office, lobby, hotel, cruise ship, health care premises or just about anywhere, including of course in a home.
As the author of the best-selling Financial Times Guide To Business Development and 18 other books sold in 58 countries, I have a real understanding of business, influence and marketing, and its importance in branding and communicating a corporate message. In this way my abstract art is very much complimentary to my work as a successful author and speaker.
Furthermore, possessing an original painting by an author with a global profile and reputation also offers potential business buyers media and PR promotional opportunities and benefits. I as the artist am always open to discussions about actively supporting these at no extra cost.