Kdo je hodil z Richard Cook (painter born 1947)?

Richard Vernon Francis Cook (born 1947, Cheltenham, England) is a British painter living and working in Newlyn, Cornwall. Cook has been exhibiting for over twenty five years and has received awards from the British Council and the Arts Council. In 2001 he was given a solo show at Tate St Ives, with a related publication, and a major painting was acquired for the collection in 2006. Further works are held in the British Museum collection.

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Partou Zia (Persian: پرتو ضیاء; 9 October 1958 – 19 March 2008) was a British-Iranian artist and writer. Born in Tehran, she emigrated to England in 1970, completing her secondary education at Whitefields School near Hendon, London (1972–78). She studied Art History at the University of Warwick (1977–80) and Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (1986–91). In 1993, Zia moved to Cornwall, where she lived and worked with her husband, the painter Richard Cook, for the remainder of her life.

In 2001, she completed a practice-based from Falmouth College of Arts (University of Plymouth) with the dissertation Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous: Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved, her dissertation examined entry into the "poetic zone". As part of her Ph.D. thesis she created two boxed sets of images: 'A Head of her Time' (24 self-portraits) and 'Eve's Book of the Garden' (12 landscapes), each image with its corresponding prose.

In 2003, Tate St Ives launched a new residency programme at the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall, previously occupied by Borlase Smart, Ben Nicholson, and Patrick Heron. Zia was the first artist to be awarded the residency. Her solo exhibition at Tate St Ives, titled Entering the Visionary Zone, was accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Virginia Button.

Zia died of cancer in March 2008. In her memory, Tate St Ives displayed one of her final paintings, Forty Nights and Forty Days, at the gallery’s entrance as a tribute. The same work also forms part of Modern and Contemporary British Art: The State We’re In (2000–Now) at Tate Britain.

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