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Bryan Pearce

Bryan Pearce (1929 - 2007) was active/lived in England.  Bryan Pearce is known for Tranquility themed landscape and harbor view paintings.

Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July 1929 - 11 January 2007) was a British painter. He was recognized as one of the UK's leading naive* style artists.

Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life. His father, Walter, was a butcher in St Ives, played rugby for Cornwall, and was later mayor of St Ives. His mother, Mary Warmington, was a painter from another local family.

Pearce suffered from the congenital disease phenylketonuria, which affects the normal development of the brain. He attended a special needs school in the 1940s and 1950s and then, encouraged by his mother and, later, by other St. Ives artists, he began drawing and painting in watercolours in 1953 before moving on to oil paint on board and, later, conté crayon. He attended Leonard Fuller's St. Ives School of Painting from 1953 to 1957.

Pearce specialized in paintings of his home town, and the surrounding Penwith area, drawn in typically flat style, with areas o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3840 characters.]  Artist bio

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