Jack Cocker uses figurative and landscape painting to explore imagery familiar to him in South-Western Ontario, Canada, concentrating on ideas that reflect genuineness, connection, spirit, memory, and the specific notes of culture that intrigue him. The subjects he chooses to paint, which often stem from a fragment of an image like a figure, a landmark, a memory, or a story, spark a prolonged curiosity which demands they be explored through painting, leading to them growing, changing, and coming to reflect the nature of painting itself throughout the process of arriving at the finished picture. The subjects he uses are often those he is very familiar with, usually by some sort of personal connection, giving the paintings a deeply autobiographical quality. However, the quality in a subject which garners his interest may be many things, such as the feeling it evokes, the atmosphere, the narrative (real or imagined), or a relationship between it and art history. Jack Cocker has a BFA in Studio Art from Western University and is represented by Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario, Canada.