Barrie Cook obituary | Christopher Masters

Abstract artist who devoted himselt to the rapid, exhilarating medium of spray paintingThe abstract artist Barrie Cook, who has died aged 91, developed a penchant for spray-painting, with which, as he put it, he tried to “break the habit of brushstroke mentality”. The technique enabled him to create striking repetitive patterns, dominated by blurred stripes and geometric forms, some of which were based on photographs. Yet the compositions, which were often developed through numerous