1969 - 72 Glasgow School Of Art, '72 Hutcheson Drawing Prize, '74 Cargill Travelling Scholarship to Spain and North Africa, '84 Arts Council travel Bursary to Central Africa, 2000 The RI Award Mall Galleries, London, 2005 Windsor & Newton award for outstanding contribution to RI show.

Ian has featured in selected group exhibitions throughout Europe between 1980 and 2003 including;

RGI, RSW, Royal Academy, RI, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005. Discerning Eye: 2001, Galeria Goya. Zaragoza Obras Oscuras. Gallery 22, Dublin. Le Salon De Nations, Paris. Caldwell's Gallery Belfast and Dublin. Touring exhibition of the Netherlands. European Abstract Expressionism, Bonn, Germany. Celia Purcell Contemporary, London. Flying Colours, London. Adam Gallery, Bath. East West Gallery, London. Kaleidoscope Gallery, London. La Mostra Gallery, Cardiff.

Ian has also had many solo exhibitions including Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Kelly Gallery Glasgow and the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall.

Collections: The BBC, Trainload Freight, Lloyds TSB. Numerous private collections in the USA and Europe. In the 1960s Ian Cook was one of the first white men invited to visit specific fishing villages on the S.W side of Lake Tanganyka since Livingstone's time.