Ian Cook is a contemporary British artist. He became famous for his artwork which is created solely using the unique method of painting using radio-controlled cars, car tyres and toy car wheels. Ian is also known and goes by his company name 'PopbangColour'. Ian has been an avid car enthusiast since childhood and combined his passions of cars, toys and art to create complex and dynamic artworks. Ian is a trained fine artist with a first degree in Fine Art Painting from Winchester School of Art, he has a quirky edge and describes his work as a 'friendly explosion of colour' which captures attention through the unusual method of working and the premise of live performance art at automotive events.Cook's artwork has been featured on Blue Peter, Top Gear, The One Show with Chris Evans and Jessie J and painted with Lewis Hamilton on Sky Sports F1. He has a studio at the Heritage Motor Centre, Warwickshire.
In October 2008, Cook made a portrait of Formula 1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton the size of "two London double-decker buses", which was unveiled by Tower Bridge, London.
In March 2011 Cook featured on the ITV breakfast show Daybreak, where he created a portrait of Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley as well as the Daybreak logo
Ian inspired me recently with a three week project for cadburys where we could rebrand a product of cadburys after choosing a product I struggled with how to move forward and what to do no matter what I did I wasn't inspired. then when looking through old sketch books I came across one on cars and I remembered Ian and how he used remote cars to paint cars. taking inspiration from him, (I must admit to playing with a mini remote control car and some chocolate , which didn't lead anywhere but thought anything was better than nothing) I decided to use chocolate to start to crate a poster/packaging (still not sure) of chocolate. cars=cars,chocolate=chocolate.
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