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

In the 7 Woods

Constructions, Drawings, Paintings

In 1981 Pearson started a series which clearly grew out of his interest in English Calendar Customs – In the Seven Woods – inspired by the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, and which explored, in large series of pencil drawings, pastels, relief paintings and prints, the imagery associated with the dance such as horned dancers, hobby horse, and woods. There is a dark and haunting quality to many of these works, with hints of mortality, and this was a period during which he lost both his father Sam (1978) and mother Anne (1983).

Several of these drawings are in the collection of the Museum of English Rural Life, in Reading.

Other Projects

Calendar Customs

English Customs

Revelations

Self-portraits

Late works 1

Early work

Autobiographical paintings

Byzantium

Van Gogh work

Late works 2

The Bestiary series