Patrick John Pearson

Palette-knife oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, stretched and ready to hang.

Remarkable Rocks are a landmark on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This artwork is a bold and textured take in ochre and blue of one of the most significant rocks of the landform, and would be a striking feature on a white wall.

$2400 including shipping (Ships rolled internationally)

Oil on stretched canvas, 50 x 70 W x 50 cm

An impasto painting inspired by the view towards the famous Obelisk in Robe, South Australia, showing the distinctive blues of the sea in the area, as well as the blue-greys of the hardy scrub that grows on the limestone outcrop.

AUD$890

Palette knife oil on stretched canvas, 92 x 152 cm

The old jetty at beautiful Port Willunga beach is well known to locals and tourists alike, for the old 'Sticks' as most people refer to the jetty, for the caves hollowed out of the cliff that shade beachgoers in the height of the South Australian summer, for the gloriously coloured water and for the restaurant, the Star of Greece, that attracts a range of clientele from around the country. This painting is mainly done with palette knife and rich, thick paint – showing the beach in one of its rare moments when no-one is there even though the sun is sparkling brightly on the water!

AUD$2950 Available for viewing at Artworx Gallery, Goolwa, SA

Palette knife oil on stretched canvas, 102 x 152 cm

The colourful giant rocks of the long sandy beach of Sellicks Beach in South Australia are well known and frequently photographed by both visitors and locals. Sellicks Beach, known as Witawali by the Kaurna people, is a popular beach in Aldinga Bay, about 50km south of the centre of Adelaide itself. This palette knife painting of the rocks and hills and beach captures the light and shadow created by cloudless summer days of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and invites the viewer onto the shell- and pebble-strewn sands.

AUD$3910

Palette Knife Oil on Canvas, 102 x 152 cm

Close to Victor Harbor in South Australia, Encounter Bay is host to several beautiful beaches, and King's Beach is one of them – sometimes reflecting absolutely smooth blue and turquoise water and sometimes being pounded by wild green waves. This palette-knife painting is of a calm blue day in Encounter Bay, looking east towards the Bluff and clearly showing the little group of rust-red rocks that stand out from the rest at one side of the beach.

AUD$3910

Palette knife oil on cavas, 50 x 70 cm

A walking trail runs along the shores of Encounter Bay towards King's Beach, and the views from the trail are spectacular. This painting is landscape orientation in thickly painted rich oil paint, applied using a palette knife, and it shows the distinctive sea colours of the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, as well as the vivid colours of the rocks and cliffs of the shoreline cliffs. Focal point is the little island in Encounter Bay called 'West Island' and the painting also shows the area of King's Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches on the Fleurieu. Framed in floating oak frame and ready to hang.

AUD$990 Available for viewing at Artworx Gallery, Goolwa, SA

Impasto Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Palette knife impasto painting of a big sugar gum 'guarding' the little bridge at the start of a private road behind the restaurant at Chateau Yaldara in the Barossa Valley. Shapes and figures emerge or are hidden in the patterns within the trunk, including the definite impression of a redheaded female figure.

AUD$3910

Impasto Oil on Canvas, 122 x 61 cm

A palette-knife painting of the giant river red gum that dominates the parking area of Chateau Yaldara at 1847 Wines in Lyndoch in the Barossa Valley. A tiny Jeep Wrangler parked below the tree lends perspective, and the impasto work reveals figures and shapes in the colours and patterns of the trunk.

AUD$1990

Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Part of a series of smaller palette-knife impasto paintings of river red gums in the Ikara-Flinders National Park in South Australia. Each painting shows the dominant pink-red colour of the soil and rocks of the area, as well as the fascinating shapes and patterns of the river red gums, which seem to twist and dance and survive, in hostile environmental conditions. This one shows the wonderful diversity of colours in the bark of the tree against the red-pink soils of the background landscape!

AUD$590

Oil on canvas, 102 x 152 cm

Inspiration for this very textured painting is the glorious Second Valley in the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. Painted in impressionist style using palette knife and saturated with colour, just as the place is in real life on a hot and breathless day when the water is crisp and delicious to jump into.

AUD$3910

Oil on Canvas, 100 x 150cm

Palette-knife impasto painting of the famous Obelisk landmark at Robe, as seen from the beach cliff directly to its south.

AUD$3910 unframed

Oil on Canvas, 102 x 76 cm

A dramatic sky in the Barossa Valley in South Australia with deep blue skies behind rainclouds, and the rain-washed vines and ploughed fields in barley green and dark chocolate browns below. The vineyard pictured is alongside the Stonewell cottages above the lake.

AUD$1990

Palette Knife Oil on Canvas, 50 x 70 cm

This is a palette knife painting where I've juxtaposed thick textured impasto with super-smooth knife work – for the sky and the water of the River Cannich. The Highlands in winter is a joy to the senses and Glen Cannich is especially so, with huge humped Munro peaks snow-covered in the background and rich orange and burnt sienna sedge grasses in the foreground – and of course the glorious Scots pine on the deep green slope.

AUD$990

Palette Knife Oil on Canvas, 76 x 51 cm

The contrast in colours in the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands is breathtaking. Glen Cannich is a spectacular valley in the Highlands, accessed via an eight-mile single track from the little town of Cannich and covered in mist one minute and absolute white-sky clear the next, startling the red deer that come right down to the side of the track in the mist. This old Scots pine and the silver birch made such an impression on me because almost all the other vegetation is heather or tufted grass or moss. The painting features much impasto work to convey the cragginess of the rocks that make up the hill, and the heather between the rocky outcrops. The sky is almost smooth brushwork, hinting at the filminess of the clouds coming in and promising more snow on the hilltops. Ready to hang.

AUD$890

Palette Knife Oil on Stretched Canvas, 51 x 61 cm

Scarborough in Cape Town is far down the Cape peninsula, farther south than the village-like suburb of Kommetjie as though you’re heading towards Cape Point. As with all gorgeous beachside places, it changes appearance constantly according to the moods of the weather and the sea. Thickly painted sculptural painting that induces a restful mood.

AUD$990

Impasto Oil on Canvas, 102 x 76W cm

On a hot, hot day in Capri, I was desperate to reach the sea to cool off, and I followed a path down a terrifyingly steep cliff below the Via Tragara until I was just 20 or 30 metres above the crystal water and this spectacular view towards Marina Piccola. The painting is rich in tones of smooth blue and indigo which show the calm swells of the water, and this contrasts with the dryness and rough impasto palette knife work depicting the sheer cliffs of Capri's coastline. Hidden in the foreground textures and colours are a peahen and a hummingbird or sunbird, symbolising the incredible beauty as well as the heat of summer in Capri. It's a tremendously calming work. Ready to hang.

AUD$1990

Oil on Canvas, 100 x 150cm

Palette-knife painting of the island of Capri off the coast of Naples, seen from the vantage point of the 3500-year-old granite sphinx on the corner of the little chapel at San Michele on Anacapri.

AUD$3910 unframed

Palette Knife Oil on Canvas, 91 x 122 cm

Behind and just to the east of the small town of Itri in Lazio, Italy, there is this old olive grove that looks abandoned or forgotten but is certainly neither of those things. I visited it when a scattering of wild poppies were in bloom against the dry grass and the rose-tinted rocks that are strewn everywhere.

AUD$2950