Patrick John Pearson

Patrick Pearson is an award-winning artist painting powerful and immersive abstracts and thickly textured landscapes or waterscapes in oils, all of which explore connections between humankind and the natural world. The artist draws inspiration from cave art, the Impressionist and Cubist schools, and from patterns in nature – especially those in tree-bark.

Patrick has drawn and painted from childhood, but after facing and surviving a brain tumour, he returned to painting with new purpose. In his works, the deeper you look, the more you see. Each canvas reflects resilience, mystery, and the untamed beauty of the natural world. Hidden frequently within the textures and lines and colours are animals on the brink of disappearing – Patrick subtly embeds endangered animals and human forms into his abstract works. His art whispers of a world we're forgetting, in a quiet call to protect what's vanishing. He paints nature through the eyes of one who has come back from the edge and his work tells a story of survival, healing, and remembering the hidden beauty around us.

His paintings are held in numerous private collections within Australia and internationally.

Recent exhibitions: ‘Translucent Memories’ 3-artist exhibition Ex Animo, July-August 2024/ Sole exhibition Farina, Hyde Park, July 2024/ ‘Spectrum’, 3-artist exhibition End/Space_ Gallery, October 2023/ Adelaide Parklands Art Prize Finalist Exhibition – group exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre 2023/ The Eloquence of South Australian Trees – solo exhibition, Mitcham SA October 2022/ Dancing Shapes: Treescapes and Seascapes – solo exhibition, Chateau Yaldara, Lyndoch SA with Barossa Arts Festival April 2022/ Dances with Trees – solo exhibition, Goodwood Theatre and Studios, SA March 2022/ Group exhibition, Victor Harbor Art Show January 2022

Patrick with his award-winning painting ‘Bush Party’ – an abstract of bark patterns on a paper mulberry tree in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia