Bruce Pearson's North Norfolk

What better way to describe the show than straight from the artist  himself: For this exhibition I've been keen to develop work based mostly on the field experience of being in the wildest and remotest corners of the North Norfolk coast between  Hunstanton and Weybourne. That has meant sometimes working on quite a large scale with the easel and lightweight board holding the paper tightly held with guy strings pegged into the ground!

I have also been drawn by the bait diggers and mussel fishermen of the coastal harbours and marshes. Their forms busy in the landscape set against sweeping skies and wide horizons filled with birdlife reflecting the essential characteristics of the North Norfolk coast. I have also used many of the small thumbnail ideas gathered in my small sketchbooks to develop printmaking work back in the studio. The result, I hope, is an expresssive mix of landscape interpretations and themes about birds, people, and also a feeling for what is widely recognised as a very special area of the UK

Bruce Pearson SWLA,
Exhibition 24th May - 7th June 2008

 

About Stillness, Bruce Pearson SWLA

Across the Harbour, Bruce Pearson SWLA

Displaying Ringed Plovers, Bruce Pearson SWLA

At Sea, Antarctica, Bruce Pearson SWLA

Evening light along beach, Bruce Pearson SWLA

Passing Sparrowhawlk, Stiffkey, Bruce Pearson SWLA

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