As
an artist fascinated by wildlife and the natural world I work as often
as
the opportunities arise out in the wild where the rhythm
and restlessness of
wildlife and elemental landscapes - and sometimes people
- interact creating powerful
images and dramatic themes.
The starting point has to be the field experience as pure
observation is the raw material - perhaps a few
small sketches, a
larger more considered drawing, or an ambitious
painting
which one hopes distils something of
the day’s experience. A
work straight from the field can sometimes be framed and
exhibited as it
is; what’s left is taken back to the studio to be
viewed in a new light
and the snatched ideas worked through in different mediums
- relief
printing (lino and woodcuts), monotype, silk-screen printing, or oil
painting.
This site sets out to convey a feeling for some of those
field experiences and to show a range of creative processes
and some of the atmosphere of an artist’s studio. The
site also shows some of the outcomes - pieces of finished
work, work in progress, or
some
of the exhibitions and
other events where paintings and prints are shown.
Over a period of almost 30 years working as an artist I have
travelled
widely in search of
subjects from the Arctic and Antarctica, to Africa, much of Europe, and
the
Americas. However, most of my time these days is
spent in my
Cambridgeshire (UK) studio.
All text and
images© Bruce Pearson 2008
