David Pearce
Painting
My working practice is driven by a desire to create in a fresh and innocent way, capturing that zest and excitement of experiencing something new for the first time.
The physicality of a painting as an object fascinates me. The art is not just in the image. The work needs to have it’s own unique identity and be compelling enough to exist by itself.
Imparting inanimate objects (boats, chairs, houses or gestural marks) with personality allows me to explore the viscosity of paint along with colour and surface in a free and unhindered way.
These aspects are a continual source of intrigue, enabling the work to remain raw, evolving and captivating for me (and hopefully for others!).
David Pearce was born in Padstow in 1963. After travelling widely throughout the 1980s, he returned to settle near Padstow. His work has been widely exhibited in Europe and the USA. Solo exhibitions include Salt House Gallery, St Ives; Bolton Street Gallery, London; Gallery Pim Vanderdonk, Amsterdam; Middle Street Gallery, Padstow; Alex Gerrard Fine Art, East Sussex; The Cadogan Gallery, London. His work has appeared in shows at Hanover Gallery, Liverpool; Lemon Street Gallery, Truro; David Holmes Contemporary Art, Peterborough; Paul Edelstein Gallery, Memphis USA; Manon Harris Gallery, Outsider Art Fair, New York.
