Ande Cook

e-mail: andecook@tds.net

Artist's Statement

Ande Cook has been an art "Jack of All Trades" - high school art teacher, Georgia State University art education instructor, Artist-in-Residence (with the Georgia Council for the Arts), and Director of Teacher Training (at Atlanta's High Museum of Art) - plus an exhibitor of fine art in several gallery shows throughout the 1990's.

A series of gouache paintings she called "Botanica," when exhibited were reviewed as "delightfully surreal, precise yet lyrical, quiet, poetic and spirit-filled."

Now with HK Portfolio illustration representatives in New York, Ande has been painting for the children's publishing market. She has worked continuously on event posters, CD covers, editorial illustrations, educational books, as well as doing catalog drawings of rare ancient objects for the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She has recently illustrated "O Christmas Tree" for Augsburg Press which were published in August 2003. You can see Ande's illustration work and fine art at andecook.com or view more illustration samples at hkportfolio.com and picturbook.com.

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