Dave Pearson
  • About
    • Dave Pearson: an overview
    • Obituary: The Guardian
    • The Dave Pearson Studio
    • Exhibition notes
    • Dave Pearson and the Creative Daimon
  • Work
    • Early work
    • Van Gogh work
    • Revelations
    • English Customs
    • Calendar Customs
    • In the 7 Woods
    • Self-portraits
    • Autobiographical paintings
    • Byzantium
    • The Bestiary series
    • Late works 1
    • Late works 2
  • News
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DAVE PEARSON

Dave Pearson (1937-2008) was a London born artist who spent most of his working life in Rossendale, Lancashire.

The writer and critic Edward Lucie-Smith wrote:“It’s not often nowadays that a really major artist slips through the net. In Dave Pearson’s case the fact is the more surprising since his major enterprises… were invariably both extremely ambitious and not at all difficult for ordinary spectators to construe and empathize with.”

THE DAVE PEARSON STUDIO

54 Manchester Rd Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TE UK

Calendar Customs

Constructions, Paintings, Prints

The research into English Calendar Customs developed into a new series of work. From 1973 until 1980 Dave Pearson continued to explore the technique of using torn card to build up deep relief surfaces which he would then overpaint. He first discovered this with his Van Gogh work but in his large Calendar Custom pieces the process grew both in detail and in the intensity of finish.

During this time he also created a series of etchings on this subject, crammed full of detail taken from his earlier researches.

Other Projects

Autobiographical paintings

The Bestiary series

Van Gogh work

Byzantium

Early work

Late works 1

Self-portraits

Revelations

In the 7 Woods