Ella has been busy with her work at the Dave Pearson Trust - she has now moved from the top floor of the studio to the middle floor, and has just begun the process of cataloguing the works stored on that level.
I walked in the other day and she had just reached number 11000 in the cataloguing of Dave Pearson's work. I couldn't resist taking a photo of the handwritten entry on the back of the painting.
It's one of the large 'Encyclopaedia' series...when Dave was bedridden towards the end of his life he focused his energies on relatively small, manageable works on paper. This series used photocopied texts which he then worked over in a variety of media - gouache, pencil, ink - combined with self-portraits.
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