Bruce Pearson's
North Norfolk
The Pinkfoot Gallery
High Street, Cley-next-the-sea, Norfolk NR25 7RB
North Norfolk
The Pinkfoot Gallery
To visit Pinkfoot Gallery website, please follow this link
24th May - 7th June 2008
24th May -
| I
have previously had work with this gallery, but never a solo
exhibition. So this is an exciting prospect for me.
I was an art student
in the late early 1970s in Great Yarmouth, and my family lived in
Norwich for almost 50 years. And the North Norfolk coast has been
a birdwatching and drawing haunt for me for many years. For this exhibition I've been keen to develop work based mostly on the field experience of being in the wildest and remotest corners of the North Norfolk coast between Hunstanton and Weybourne. That has meant sometimes working on quite a large scale with the easel and lightweight board holding the paper tightly held with guy strings pegged into the ground! I have also been drawn by the bait diggers and mussel fishermen of the coastal harbours and marshes. Their forms busy in the landscape set against sweeping skies and wide horizons filled with birdlife reflecting the essential characteristics of the North Norfolk coast. I have also used many of the small thumbnail ideas gathered in my small sketchbooks to develop printmaking work back in the studio. The result, I hope, is an expresssive mix of landscape interpretations and themes about birds, people, and also a feeling for what is widely recognised as a very special area of the UK. (Right) Bait digger sketches. Pencil and watercolour, 42cm x 42 |
|