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This show of work, much of it spread over the last 15 years, is largely a product of 2 major influences:
1) The ongoing concerns of my own art teaching.
2) An enthusiasm for rich and varied developments in mainly 20c. Art history
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Having been involved in art education for over 30 years it is often the case that the nature of my own work has, almost
unwittingly, grown out of the content of my own teaching. A chance encounter with rusting shackles on a school visit to
Goole Docks; the need to create a striking backdrop to a school production; a Year 10 assignment on the “rear of houses”
which opened my eyes to the varied qualities in my own backyard are just a few examples of this process. Indeed a number
of such works actually began life as teaching aids illustrating various modes of representation and development techniques-
witness the ‘cubist metamorphosis’ of 1986!
In terms of artistic influences, my work, at different moments, owes debts to CUBISM- the reorganisation of perceptual reality
into structured conceptual whole based on a combination of direct experience, memory and imagination; FUTURISM- the evocation
of kinetic movement on a static surface; SURREALISM- evidence by the unlikely juxtaposition of represented elements or styles
within the same metaphoric work or equally by the often powerful presence of commonplace objects or environments; NATURALISM-
an emphasis given to the observation of visual form in all its transient and structured aspects.
Most usually the choice of stylistic treatment arises intuitively out of the nature of the subject matter: Futurist/Cubist for
memory images/events; Naturalistic for conveying the visual excitement of single objects/spaces. There are, however, many
departures from this rule and I am very conscious of the fact that the way we interpret our experiences in the first place
is frequently a direct result of our previous associations with art itself.
Perception then transformed by the art of others; objects/environments transformed by the transience of nature; images transformed
by slowly evolving modes of representations within the same composition.
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Tim Pearce is Head of Art at Don Valley High School, Doncaster-UK
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