Title:
Dr. Kandel (April 2025)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16 x 20 inches
Artist: SP Cook
Description:
“Dr. Kandel” is an evocative and intellectually charged original painting by Canadian artist SP Cook, completed in April 2025. Measuring 16x20 inches, this acrylic on canvas work pays tribute to the elusive nature of consciousness and memory, likely inspired by the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Dr. Eric Kandel.
With Cook’s signature figurative expressionist style, “Dr. Kandel” layers abstract forms, distorted face, and bold, chaotic colour to explore the fragile intersection between science and the human experience. The painting pulses with psychological intensity, suggesting the blurred boundaries between clinical understanding and emotional reality.
As with much of SP Cook’s work, there’s a tension between control and surrender. Using self-invented tools to disrupt traditional brushwork, Cook allows the image to unfold organically, revealing fragmented visions that seem to float between memory and dream.
About the Artist:
SP Cook is a self-taught Canadian painter known for his expressive and emotionally raw approach to contemporary figurative art. Raised in a military family and shaped by the chronic pain of childhood migraines, his paintings confront the contradictions of modern life — blending beauty with dissonance, clarity with confusion. Exhibited across Canada and collected nationwide, SP Cook’s work is a vivid journey into the depths of the human psyche.
 
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