Garden inspired paintings and monoprints in bold beautiful colour with fabulous abstract sculpture by Greg Pearson.
Former Surrey Artist of the Year Tessa Pearson is returning to the Fountain Gallery this spring with a new collection of her fabulous colourful paintings and silkscreen monoprints. Joining her this year is Greg Pearson with his original hand formed metal sculptures of unique compositions of form and colour.
Tessa Pearson is an established artist with many collectors, known for her exceptional use of colour. She sees gardens as living paintings and they have been the inspiration she has returned to many times. Creating her own garden has been an influential process informing her current work. As the garden emerges each year she repeatedly immerses herself in the planting, responding to the colour, rhythms and characteristics that excite. The time spent drawing and painting these moments build a rich recollection of images to create larger scale paintings and monoprints. Working with unpredictable water media and experimental printmaking processes, mixing direct spontaneous mark making and considered digital imagery ensures the liveliness and energy captured from direct observation.
Her son Greg is an emerging artist becoming increasingly successful as his highly original and inventive sculptures are discovered. Greg is showing a selection from his new Colourful Companion series. The wall sculptures are mounted invisibly on the wall on one nail.
‘All of my sculptures are created by cold hand bending steel rod or tube and judging by eye, a personal technique that I have developed and continue to advance. With this I am able to create unique shapes and forms not possible using machines or other conventional methods.’ Greg Pearson March 2021