Bruce Pearson SWLA

The starting point has to be the field experience as pure observation is the raw material - perhaps a few small sketches, sometimes a larger more considered drawing, or when the moment is right attempting a more 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 and drypoint, screen printing, or oil painting. 

Over the past 40 years working as an artist Bruce has been fortunate in being able to travel widely in search of subjects from the Arctic and Antarctica, to Africa, much of Europe, and the Americas. However, a lot of his time these days is spent in a studio filled with drawings, paintings, notebooks, and sketches reflecting those travels.  Although there are still opportunities to see new species and experience different landscapes and also explore new ideas, searching through those accumulated volumes of creative debris for fresh starting points he is finding an increasingly exciting creative pursuit.