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, increasingly I’m spending more of my time these days in my Cambridgeshire (UK) studio.

All text and images© Bruce Pearson 2010

SOUTH AFRICA

August 11th - September 6th  2010

Embedded with the Albatross Task Force I will set out from Richard’s Bay aboard a long-line fishing vessel to witness the oceanic collision of fishermen and seabirds.  

It is all a part of the Troubled Waters project

SWLA: THE NATURAL EYE

Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition

2010

22 Sept - Oct  10am - 5pm

Mall Galleries

London SW1