Ben Cook | Surfing Landscapes of Cornwall
A new book, Surfing Landscapes of Cornwall, by artist Ben Cook, takes the form of a sketchbook, and contains over thirty unidentified drawings of surf spots, or Surfing Landscapes, in Cornwall.
Cook’s drawings are not of waves or surfers, but of the approaches and routes surfers take to the beach, cove or reef that has the potential to produce a perfect wave. Some of these drawings are immediately recognisable, and summon up memories of waves ridden and blissful sessions shared with friends.
Surfing Landscapes of Cornwall
Others are harder to place, but the fun is in trying to identify them. Cook is not proclaiming a definitive compendium, because what constitutes a Surfing Landscape is very much in the eye of the surfer. The detail in Cook’s drawings references the discipline, knowledge and determination needed to locate and ride waves. A surfers interpretation of, and response to their landscape, informs them where and when to go surfing. It is this connection to the landscape, and the weather systems and tidal forces that shape it, that allow surfers an
immersion in, and a relationship with the landscape that is extraordinary in it’s intensity.
Surfing Landscapes of Cornwall
Available from Blurb.com
Signed softback and (waxed) hardback copies available from Ben
