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

Hospital series gouache 1 Hospital series gouache 2 Hospital series gouache 3 Hospital series gouache 4 Hospital series gouache 5 Hospital series gouache 6 Encyclopedia portrait Encyclopedia portrait Late ink painting Last portrait 2 Last portrait 1

Late works 2

Drawings, Photography

As Dave Pearson’s illness developed, his energy declined he began a number of series of works on paper. These include the Encyclopedia series that would continue to his death, and a large series of photographic, collaged, embroidered, drawn and painted work in gouache and ink on paper, under the umbrella of the Encyclopedia series, titled Illness. Many of these included photographs from his hospital stays – somehow he had persuaded staff to photograph his various medical procedures and included his own photographs of nursing staff. Dave also produced series of small self-portraits on paper, usually in triptychs during this period. His last works, done from his bed a few days before his death, were also self-portraits in blue on gold.

Other Projects

English Customs

Byzantium

Van Gogh work

Late works 1

Revelations

Self-portraits

Early work

The Bestiary series

In the 7 Woods