gouache on board, signed framed and under glass

image size 40cm x 50cm, overall size 48cm x 58cm

Note: Since the early 1970s Bruce Pearson's paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in the UK and all over the world in many group and solo exhibitions. He has won numerous major international awards for his work. Pearson was elected President of the Society of Wildlife Artists (1994 – 2004) and subsequently joined the board of the Artists for Nature Foundation. In the earlier years of his career, much of Bruce’s work was largely as a freelance illustrator on a wide range of natural history books, magazines and journals, including writing and illustrating An Artist on Migration, one chapter of which – centered on West Africa – was subsequently filmed and shown on BBC2 television in a program (Beyond Timbuktu) which he presented. For the past 10 years Bruce’s work has largely involved private commissions from individuals, museums and institutions; and by invitation from the Artists for Nature Foundation (ANF). In 2005 Bruce received a commission from the Sultan of Oman for twelve major paintings and the following year was commissioned to paint a further fourteen. He had previously completed two mural commissions for the RSPB and a commission for twenty four works for The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.