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
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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

Victoria Park Two astronauts Ann in mirror Victoria Park Railway sidings Camel painting Astronauts Sam at work Military man Astronaut piece Parents Lee Valley

Early work

Constructions, Drawings, Paintings

We know that as a teenager Dave Pearson began to collect material about the space race, which fascinated him, and he used this as subject material for artwork. Between 1955 and 1960 he enrolled at St. Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, where a tutor commented that he had ‘never seen him smile’, and by his own admission Pearson was an ‘angry young man’. Probably as a result of this attitude he didn’t graduate from either institution, but his Astronauts series was included in the Young Contemporaries exhibition in 1959, and was shown in 1961 at the New Art Centre.
By 1962 Pearson was experimenting with mixed media, making assemblages, photo montages and attempts at kinetic work – soaking up all the current trends. He continued to draw and paint throughout this time, including domestic scenes as well as various landscapes in the vicinity of his home in Hackney, London.

Other Projects

English Customs

Revelations

The Bestiary series

In the 7 Woods

Late works 2

Autobiographical paintings

Late works 1

Calendar Customs

Van Gogh work

Self-portraits

Byzantium