LUKE COOPER Rainy Day in the Forest | Acrylic | 2020

“This painting was inspired by looking out of a cinder block glass window on a rainy day. All that could be seen was a
wet blur of green as I looked out into the backyard. To create this piece I used various shades of green, gray, black and
off-white. The texture was created with my fingers and a piece of graded metal. I blended layers of colors together with
a paintbrush and my fingers.”
-Luke Cooper

Luke Cooper is fifteen years old, and a sophomore in high school. Since he was nine years old, he’s been creating
and selling art starting with an art and lemonade stand. His first painting to exhibit in a museum was from March 29
to April 25, 2021, at the Springfield Museum of Art. Cooper’s painting entitled, Grey Day at Sea was a part of the Accessible
Expressions Ohio, 2021 exhibition. He loves to design buildings and landscapes and aspires to be an architectural engineer.