So who am I?
I am J Edward Cook \u2013 my professional name. Most people call me John, some call me Cookie.
And what do I do?
I make fine artwork \u2013 some for everyday use and some for long term collecting investments.
Why the difference? I do it because everyone has different needs but make no mistake, I consider all of my work to be fine art regardless of the price point or entry level that you are currently in and to me you are all equally important.
I started out at a very young age with a camera and like most people, I wasn\u2019t very good at it, but I got better.
Then more things happened in my life and I still had a camera \u2013 and my photography got better.
I am used to being alone. I am completely comfortable going out there somewhere for days on end alone and taking pictures and as I did so, my photography got better.
I also started doing films and have won several awards for them. But regardless of any film award that I have won, or will win, the most important one was for \u2018Best use of Music\u2019 for my film \u2018Welcome to the Club\u2019 which would have made my mother proud. I say, would have made her proud, because she is now deceased and the movie was about the stages of death that a person goes through as they die and in this case the person dying was her and she was a musician.
So after at least forty years of taking pictures, have I gotten better? Yes.
Will I continue to take pictures? Yes.
I recently saw a movie, where one of the characters, kept telling one of their kids who kept failing miserably, \u2018practice is the road to perfection\u2019.
God himself said, \u201cBe thou perfect, even as I am perfect.\u2019
I have much more practice to do and as I do so, my artwork will get better.
I hope you enjoy your time here and have a pleasant day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ciao,
Cookie
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