View Of Clodgy With Ten Seagulls, 1998
Oil on board
28.25 x 22.25 ins
£ 6,300

Interior Of St Ives Parish Church, 1998
Oil on board
24 x 20 ins
Private collection

Whether Bryan Pearce is a slow worker or not he is a consistent and conscientious painter. He has never pushed his career and much of his work has never been publicly exhibited. He is a modest figure and working with him has been a very humbling experience.

Despite developing phenylketonuria during his childhood years his mother Mary encouraged him to paint at the age of twenty-four. Over the years Pearce has forged himself an immediately recognisable unique style characterised by his emotional response to his environment. His paintings, often depicted by perfectly simple lines, with use of a restricted palette provide an uncomplicated calmness which imbues the viewer with a sense of tranquility. Something totally personal evolves. The paintings are produced from the mind’s eye – a truthful and distinctly cerebral arrangement of poetic shape and form, each line being meticulously outlined before any colour is applied.

Pearce like any good artist naturally lives by seeing, knowing what he feels and what intrinsically matters to him. Perception is central to everything he creates. This is a wonderful exhibition encompassing the path of Pearce’s work from the small watercolours, his favourite medium during 1953, moving to oils he produced between 1957 and 1964 until now where oil, conté, ink and pencil dominate the mood of his work.

The work of Bryan Pearce is monumental in the history of St Ives painters.

Louise Jones, Lemon Street Gallery

St Erth Parish Church, 1979
Oil on board
28.25 x 22.25 ins
£ 6,300

Ruth Jones’s Garden, 2001
Oil on board
22 x 28 ins
Private collection

St Just Parish Church Interior, 2003
Oil on board
24 x 20 ins
£ 5,100

Coconut Still Life, 1957
Oil on board
15 x 20 ins
£ 4,000

Land’s End Airport, 1956
Oil on board
20 x 24 ins
Private collection

Nets Drying On The Island, 1956
Watercolour
14.25 x 21.5 ins
£ 2,000

Anemones, 1956
Watercolour
9.25 x 14.25 ins
Private collection

Flowers In Cream Jug And Fruit, 1991
Oil on board
24.5 x 20 ins
Private collection

Jug and Flowers, 1956
Watercolour
14.75x 10.75 ins
Private collection

Crabber, 1963
Ink and pencil
13.75x 19.75 ins
£ 2,400

Porthminster From Norway House, 1956
Watercolour
10.5 x 9 ins
Private collection

Porthleven, 1967
Pencil drawing outlined in oil paint
21.5 x 30 ins
Private collection

Still-Life and Check Cloth, 2003
Conté on paper
21.5 X 14.5 inches
£ 3,800

Rose’s Indian Dolls, 2004
Conté drawing
21.25 x 14.5 ins
£ 3,800

Still life with Begonias and Cups, 2003
Conté on paper
21.5 X 14.5 inches
£ 3,800

‘Boscastle’, 1997
Conté drawing
14.5 x 21 ins
Private collection

Indian Birds II, 2000
Pencil drawing
7.5 x 8.5 ins
£ 1,250

St Uny, Lelant, 1976
Pen and ink drawing
11.5 x 16.5 ins
£ 2,600

Cape Cornwall from Sennen Cove
Private collection

Limited edition of 70 special box set of catalogue and signed lithograph

Bryan Pearce
St Just in Roseland
Framed £320
Unframed £260

Bryan Pearce
Parish Church from Market Place
Framed £320
Unframed £260

Bryan Pearce
Newlyn Harbour
Framed £320
Unframed £260

Bryan Pearce
Osteospermum and Shisha
Framed £160

Bryan Pearce
Arum Lillies
Framed £440
Unframed £360

Indian Birds III, 2000
Pencil drawing
7.5 x 8.5 ins
£ 1,250

Indian Birds I, 2000
Pencil drawing
7.5 x 8.5 ins
£ 1,250

Bryan Pearce
Buzy Lizzie and Island View
Framed £320
Unframed £260