Patrick Pearson paints powerful and immersive abstracts and thickly textured landscapes or waterscapes in oils, exploring connections between humankind and the natural world. The artist draws inspiration from cave art, Impressionism, and patterns in nature – especially the colours and markings in tree-bark. 
Patrick has drawn and painted from childhood, but after facing and surviving a brain tumour in his forties, he returned to painting with new purpose. In his works, the deeper you look, the more you see. Each canvas reflects the resilience, mystery, and untamed beauty of Nature. Hidden within the textures, lines and colours of his abstracts are subtly embedded endangered animals and human forms. His art speaks of a world we're forgetting, in a quiet call to protect what's vanishing. Nature is painted through the eyes of one who has come back from the edge, and his artworks tell a story of survival, healing, and finding the beauty around us.
His paintings are held in numerous private collections within Australia as well as a dozen countries 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
Patrick with his award-winning painting ‘Bush Party’ – an abstract of bark patterns on a paper mulberry tree in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Patrick with his painting ‘Sources of Wisdom’, an abstract inspired by the bark patterns of a Eucalyptus regnans, or mountain ash tree, in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, filmed for a 7News interview