BRUCE PEARSON SWLA
Painter and printmaker
As a painter, printmaker and field naturalist
he has combined all three in a 30-year career as a full-time artist working on a
range of subjects and themes in the Arctic, Antarctica, West Africa, the Caribbean,
and North and South America. It is the rhythm and restlessness of the natural world
that fascinates, both in wild landscapes and places where people and human activity
interact with habitats to create interesting themes. A painting might be completed
directly in the field, while volumes of sketches and studies provide ideas and fresh
starting points for painting and printmaking work in the studio. Since the early
1970s his paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in the UK and overseas
in many group and solo exhibitions. He has won awards for his work, most recently
the GMAC Commercial Mortgage Europe Art award at the Society of Wildlife Artists
2005 exhibition at the Mall Galleries. He has been president of the Society of Wildlife
Artists (1994 – 2004) and recently joined the board of the Artists for Nature Foundation.
Prior to that much of Bruce’s work was largely as a freelance illustrator on a wide
range of natural history books, magazines and journals, including writing and illustrating
An Artist on Migration, one chapter of which - centered in West Africa - was subsequently
filmed and shown on BB2 television in a programme (Beyond Timbuctu) that he presented.
For the past 10 years Bruce’s work has largely involved private commissions from
individuals, museums and institutions; and by invitation from the Artists for Nature
Foundation (ANF). Bruce has participated in international art events and exhibitions
around the world.
