Ian Pearson
Matisse rearranged
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Intuitive Variation
11 June – 6 July
For many years, Ian Pearson taught colour theory in a range of educational environments. His awareness of colour mixing is deep and unique. Kandinsky was interested in the colour of sound. Pearson seems to be interested in the sound of colour. Colour in these paintings has a distinctly musical quality. It’s a music that visualises a place for contemplation, a place to relax away from the bombardment of imagery from mass media. The paint in these works is controlled and vigorous. The oil surfaces are quite physical, a knifed impasto. These are robust pictures yet all paintings surrounded by a clean white edge making them visually crisp like a print.
Pearson’s paintings are musical, clever and delightful. Many of them are private conversations between the artist and art history, conversations that are respectful but also light and humorous. Pearson has always had a fondness for the art of David Hockney and his post- pop style that is clean and kinetic. Hockney said in relation to the older artist…”When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.”
Steven Giese
download abridged version of Steven’s essay here
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Born in 1951 Ian Pearson as been exhibiting since 1977 and is included in numerous public and private collections in Australia and abroad
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #1
100×100cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Yellow
180×180cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Crisscross
60×60cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Bush with wattle
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #2
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Waterhole
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Orange forest
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Clay pan
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Stormy weather
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Magpie in red forest
76×76cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Waterhole in red landscape
100×100cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Green on green
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #5
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #4 (ochre)
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Blue blue electric blue
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Bad moon rising
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Burning bush
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #3 (blue)
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Yellow robin (Narcissus)
80×80cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Here comes the sun
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Tangled up in blue
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Monet’s Japanese bridge #4
45×45cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Recovering bush with yellow robin
100×100cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Harbour variation #6 (yellow)
30×30cm oil on canvas
Ian Pearson
Ochre landscape with grass tree
30×30cm oil on canvas
works up to 60×60cm in size are framed
larger works are on stretched canvas ready to hang
