P. J. Crook

The recorded working language is English. Work by P. Crook is recorded in the collections of The Wilson, Royal West of England Academy, Rye Art Gallery and Imperial War Museum London. Distinctions recorded are Member of the Order of the British Empire.

From a studio opposite her house, she manages compositions on a monumental scale — paintings can measure 2 × 4.5 metres and also paints small pictures, some no larger than 10 cm square. She works in tinted gesso, acrylic and sometimes in oil on canvas. She often paints crowds, either in motion in urban environments or standing still reading newspapers, many of which are on undulating 3D corrugated structures as with 'The Smell of the Horse, the Roar of the Crowd" (coll. Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum), "Other Mothers' Sons" (coll. Imperial War Museum, London) "Paper Hat" and "The Kiss" (coll. Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Japan). These have led onto her three dimensional sculptures mainly constructed out of found objects. In 1996, Crook co-starred with musician Toyah Willcox on the HTV short film Rolinda Sharples: Painted out of History. The production led to a friendship between the two, and later on to Wilcox's husband, King Crimson/ProjeKcts guitarist Robert Fripp. Wilcox and Fripp own some of Crook's paintings, and the latter has used them as covers for his group's releases.

PJ Crook's paintings are featured on the covers of many King Crimson albums. Many of these albums are produced by Discipline Global Mobile (DGM), the music company founded by Robert Fripp. Crook retains the copyrights and moral rights to her artwork. • Painting(s) — Album — Painting date — Release date • The Night Watch — 1996 — 1997 • Epitaph déjà VROOOM (booklet p. 7) — 1990-94 — 1997 1999 • Absent Lovers I [Nude] — Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal déjà VROOOM (booklet pp. 13–14) — 1998 — 1998 1999 • Absent Lovers II [Empty Bed] — Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal — 1998 — 1998 • Now and Then — déjà VROOOM (cover; booklet outer pages, pp. 1–6, 17, 18) — 1997-8 — 1999 • unidentified painting — déjà VROOOM (booklet pp. 15–16) —???? — 1999 • Saint Genesius — The Deception of the Thrush: A Beginners' Guide to ProjeKcts — 1988 — 1999 • Piano Bar — Live at the Jazz Café (front cover) — 1998 — 1999 • unidentified paintings — Live at the Jazz Café —???? — 1999 • Masque — Masque — 1986 — 1999 • Cirkus — Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live — 1993 — 1999 • Winter of Discontent — Heavy ConstruKction — 1993 — 2000 • Level Five (front cover) The Power to Believe (outer back inlay) The Power to Believe Tour Box — 1993 — 2001 2003 • déjà VROOOM — Vrooom Vrooom (Live in Mexico City) déjà VROOOM (booklet pp. 11–12) — 1996 — 2001 1999 • On Broadway — Vrooom Vrooom (on Broadway) Live in Argentina, 1994 — 1996 — 2001 2012 • Sidewalkers — Ladies of the Road — 1998 — 2002 • It Could be Us — Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (front cover) —???? — 2002 • Waiting — Shoganai Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (back cover) — 1986 — 2002 • Fin de Siècle — Level Five (back cover; CD label) — 1999 — 2003 2001 • unidentified painting — (inner back inlay) Heaven & Earth (inner top lid) —???? — 2003 • The Outsider — Eyes Wide Open EleKtrik: Live in Japan — 1994 — 2003 • Fairground — Neal and Jack and Me —???? — 2004 • unidentified paintings — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One – 1969–1974 —???? — 2004 • March 30 — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One (inner cover) — 1993 — 2004 • Harry's Bar — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One (disc 2) — 1985 — 2004 • Sunday (Reading in Bed) — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One (disc 3) —???? — 2004 • unidentified paintings — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume Two – 1981–2003 —???? — 2004 • Good Morning, M. Balladur — The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume Two (inner cover) —???? — 2004 • unidentified paintings — The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson —???? — 2004 • Tuesday — The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson (front cover) — 2002 — 2004 • unidentified painting —???? — 2007 • unidentified painting —???? — 2007 • Expresso — 40th Anniversary Tour Box The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One (disc 1) — 1997 — 2008 2004 • Christian Children, Marching, Singing —???? — 2011 • Nocturne — Heaven & Earth — 2012 — 2019