tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18309662322814787072024-02-07T02:47:23.432+00:00An Artist's EstateIn July 2008 the artist Dave Pearson died leaving an enormous amount of artwork. This blog follows the journey taken by one of the executors of his will - a steep learning curve to perpetuate the reputation of an inspirational artist and man.Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-24379695659508383492023-01-05T15:20:00.002+00:002023-01-05T15:20:29.286+00:00<p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">This will be the final post on this blog. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>An Artists Estate</b> has followed me through the process of handling the estate of the artist <b>Dave Pearson</b>, since his death in 2008.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">During that time I've learned a lot about the complexities of managing an artist's estate, and the dangers and pitfalls of dealing with estate taxes in particular. I'll keep this blog on line in order to help those who find themselves in a similar situation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Now, at the beginning of 2023, we've entered a completely new phase of managing the work. </b>Dave left behind 20,000 pieces of artwork. Much of this was in the form of sketches and notes that he would never have sold or wanted to exhibit. I estimate that about 4,000 artworks were vital and important enough to present for sale. All the income raised has gone to Dave Pearson's son as part of his inheritance. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Since 2008 I have sold roughly 800 of Dave's paintings, drawings, prints and reliefs. His studio has now become the house where I live with my family. However, the basement has been converted into a gallery showing (and selling) the remainder of Dave Pearson's smaller works (photographs below). The large paintings (about 500) have been moved to Chris Pearson's house, which is literally just down the way...</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikx5HrrzvQkagBqksGmbWDQ-5kI-AZ2t1ImhWlwDpImOrH7_FZPut5CKMDMe6GS2_riFkNVHcP9n_2l9uMijg4BvbNuOCNvafKPMoKlnSPybgarW_2DUwozjOMwLO-OkRFXpOmDaYS1fCTra1ABwaiHoQGm1d65Dp0Cp2WopmkXO4PoGzXBw7s5lBOWg/s1280/IMG_1021.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikx5HrrzvQkagBqksGmbWDQ-5kI-AZ2t1ImhWlwDpImOrH7_FZPut5CKMDMe6GS2_riFkNVHcP9n_2l9uMijg4BvbNuOCNvafKPMoKlnSPybgarW_2DUwozjOMwLO-OkRFXpOmDaYS1fCTra1ABwaiHoQGm1d65Dp0Cp2WopmkXO4PoGzXBw7s5lBOWg/s320/IMG_1021.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoe7-5yIySyNAu-jg6vrME7i15qqzwCQ7OytR8bmbOCCdnkMonXAAKHm2vatl3xeYyKVCYuZDenGqx5kk3xFau6H6IrXcog4byHchJSbb2AXvmvNRQMeJ5Mrcn2gsMtEfByY-_-PFM-lAUkNL_h07DHTjvbETbKLcqYezMhSpBDZqil0czwa7FDXB6ww/s1280/IMG_1022.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoe7-5yIySyNAu-jg6vrME7i15qqzwCQ7OytR8bmbOCCdnkMonXAAKHm2vatl3xeYyKVCYuZDenGqx5kk3xFau6H6IrXcog4byHchJSbb2AXvmvNRQMeJ5Mrcn2gsMtEfByY-_-PFM-lAUkNL_h07DHTjvbETbKLcqYezMhSpBDZqil0czwa7FDXB6ww/s320/IMG_1022.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBLWESPDbooM-ncBt7TZv5wKrLBg-ibXHKYkDBuacOM7McruTrdNT-b-wjbCwhVIS3yxdTUPUtg-Bwuq6aSHe3skufp4TQ41Cr4BCQ4KJYQTPCaMWlmelm1b5eGQgYL1WbFyI_B6FKDZnXPQPxtSHwTZlg39V_gkFXpetalxXHlbty0BqktYHpwovqg/s1280/IMG_1052.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBLWESPDbooM-ncBt7TZv5wKrLBg-ibXHKYkDBuacOM7McruTrdNT-b-wjbCwhVIS3yxdTUPUtg-Bwuq6aSHe3skufp4TQ41Cr4BCQ4KJYQTPCaMWlmelm1b5eGQgYL1WbFyI_B6FKDZnXPQPxtSHwTZlg39V_gkFXpetalxXHlbty0BqktYHpwovqg/s320/IMG_1052.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvq_elPag9GyEqpuJiQVU3l6i1-qAdl4Mha__oTCUwaj65TQCi11JnD_jJ133eYWrD_dd9UbXsay5V9TTY7FQfaNeB5BU64jf1lUQVplBnFusGdjoIP7FXdjNpRWO9n37HaniGtcm6AE09SytXn1WvUhB3BU5V4h9qt5PRo2CAwP6jkGXVooimkheduQ/s1280/IMG_1053.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvq_elPag9GyEqpuJiQVU3l6i1-qAdl4Mha__oTCUwaj65TQCi11JnD_jJ133eYWrD_dd9UbXsay5V9TTY7FQfaNeB5BU64jf1lUQVplBnFusGdjoIP7FXdjNpRWO9n37HaniGtcm6AE09SytXn1WvUhB3BU5V4h9qt5PRo2CAwP6jkGXVooimkheduQ/s320/IMG_1053.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-81461558730736501602020-10-28T13:01:00.001+00:002020-10-28T13:01:37.880+00:00Long time; no see...<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>It's been ten months since my last blog, and eight of those we've been under lockdown due to the pandemic. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Inevitably, things have slowed right down during this period. The studio in Haslingden has had to close its doors, although I've been working on and off in tidying the collection; trying to make more space; and hanging a new (sadly almost totally unseen) exhibition of some of Dave's small oil paintings. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HK-q18a5Pt5nvAICrnNOu5oqGnG_po6mQjeoZQ0OKY9dRTvlMrxTMrazYyQJfgZOM-0kfOaqaX1YU0a4XJRnzvCTl3XgQuDCYcOEF9XAH-AFnlBnPsumMwOmBg3YUF2zUA1GUBZPDrJE/s1280/IMG_8234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HK-q18a5Pt5nvAICrnNOu5oqGnG_po6mQjeoZQ0OKY9dRTvlMrxTMrazYyQJfgZOM-0kfOaqaX1YU0a4XJRnzvCTl3XgQuDCYcOEF9XAH-AFnlBnPsumMwOmBg3YUF2zUA1GUBZPDrJE/s320/IMG_8234.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhyTG3oRjrwbgQLnCUq9JGf40UG2gZsoByESzOY_khdYLHpOV37YSP3aNdib7pYRIHyOy2gX69p9IckegDKLHywfHjUAsjGc-hYbU3OnbY2frhCjgoijI467UNRY5XgCT15IvfzWuAIuD/s1280/IMG_8235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhyTG3oRjrwbgQLnCUq9JGf40UG2gZsoByESzOY_khdYLHpOV37YSP3aNdib7pYRIHyOy2gX69p9IckegDKLHywfHjUAsjGc-hYbU3OnbY2frhCjgoijI467UNRY5XgCT15IvfzWuAIuD/s320/IMG_8235.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAZIyYGqd6e4PK0mpS-8YamFzqcMPnhTGtT7TXT4olDUwgjFlgbOHH4m14z2c96F0QA4EfArkzYXrQ8Ovo07TcefmSRQQklfLrlkjVlG7YLzOMzrR23kVIB-koMZ3hsAdkxyTrXymSmfK/s1280/IMG_8236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAZIyYGqd6e4PK0mpS-8YamFzqcMPnhTGtT7TXT4olDUwgjFlgbOHH4m14z2c96F0QA4EfArkzYXrQ8Ovo07TcefmSRQQklfLrlkjVlG7YLzOMzrR23kVIB-koMZ3hsAdkxyTrXymSmfK/s320/IMG_8236.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlgabIsvtp2w3MNkjjESKKmu6MA7tS-D_bzVStX6VdIxtdTLiJQtVJyTBg0kTXg2RAKQKGSTVpS1zi4FygdWb13b4BXEIXWLbOQmygoyJojmpjDGoFvflG1PcUrTEYU52qK5AXPn7qNpp/s1280/IMG_8237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlgabIsvtp2w3MNkjjESKKmu6MA7tS-D_bzVStX6VdIxtdTLiJQtVJyTBg0kTXg2RAKQKGSTVpS1zi4FygdWb13b4BXEIXWLbOQmygoyJojmpjDGoFvflG1PcUrTEYU52qK5AXPn7qNpp/s320/IMG_8237.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sales have inevitably dropped right away, although interest has picked up again these past few weeks, which has been encouraging.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The annual <b>Rossendale Art Trail</b> for 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic, and as a second-best we've created a new website - Rossendale Art Trail Online - at <a href="http://rossendalearttrail.org">rossendalearttrail.org</a>, which I spent much of the late summer designing. The Dave Pearson Studio features as an exhibition venue in its listings, although Dave Pearson is not included as it's very much a site for practicing <a href="http://www.rossandelarttrail.org" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: black;"></span></a>artists. </span></p>Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-19548274327954734022019-12-03T17:04:00.000+00:002019-12-03T17:04:19.832+00:00Housekeeping...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I<b>t's now over 10 years since I started writing this blog</b>. Initially the motivation was to give advice and support to others who might, like us, find themselves facing the daunting task of having to manage an artist's estate after their death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inevitably the first years' were an extremely steep learning curve - setting up a <b>Trust</b>; selling items of Dave's work to benefit his son Chris; cataloguing the huge amount of artwork; creating various websites; organising exhibitions; looking at the legal aspects of a complex inheritance...and so on, and on...and on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've documented much of this in this <b>Artists Estate Blog</b> and gradually, over the decade, our workload has settled down. At the same time, other changes have been made. The studio, which holds most of Dave's artwork, has given over space to local women from South Asian background - known as <b>Apna</b>, and their classes, workshops and various other activities have helped keep our building lively and exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we continue to learn and develop. Over the past year or so we've wound down the Trust and from it created <b>the Dave Pearson Studio</b>; we've designed an <b>on-line shop</b> (<a href="http://www.dspearsonshop.co.uk/">www.dspearsonshop.co.uk</a>) to sell original artwork by Dave Pearson, and we've curated a large-scale exhibition at <b>The Turnpike</b> in Leigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the collection or work left behind by Dave Pearson has now been catalogued. But it's far from being done and dusted - just today, for instance, we've discovered a number of works on paper that somehow ha</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ve been overlooked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The upper painting is ink on paper, and although I uncovered it a few years ago it somehow disappeared from sight and only reappeared today. The lower mixed media work, again on paper, is unusual for Dave Pearson, in its 'English romantic' colouring. I'm not at all sure of the dates of either - I think probably that they are from when Dave was in his mid-20s (early 1960s), but I'm not at all sure of this. As our archivist <b>Ella Cole</b> points out, the lower piece has some similarities with the Calendar Customs work of the later 1970s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're on firmer ground with Dave's <b>'Van Gogh'</b> period. This was from the late 1960s, and it was work he was doing when I first met him. Today we came across about 100 pieces of work from that time. They had already been catalogued, but before the present software was in place, so today we reorganised them to fit in to the new system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a period of Dave's work that we haven't done much with recently. But with the rediscovery of this tranche of drawings it could well be something we might build an exhibition around in the near future. The large-scale pieces he made at this time - the huge reconstruction of <b>'Van Gogh's Bedroom'</b>, or <b>'The Potato Eaters'</b> have all been lost, but some of these beautiful graphic works survive and are well worth showing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photographer <b>Paul Brown</b> (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.paul-brown.com/">http://www.paul-brown.com</a></span>), <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who I knew during the 1960s, recently got in touch as he has been scanning in some old negatives, and came across a few from visiting Dave Pearson, probably in 1967. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were taken in Dave's house at 14 <b>Burgess Street, Haslingden</b>, now demolished and turned into the car park at the rear of the library. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They take me back to a time when I was student of Dave's. Shortly after these were taken I moved to Haslingden myself. Dave generously put me up for a period of several months before I finally found myself a home of my own in Snig Hole, Helmshore. </span></div>
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<br />Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-8796999586730940772019-10-07T11:22:00.006+01:002020-10-28T14:06:36.194+00:00Rossendale Art Trail II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had exactly 100 visitors to 54 Manchester Road over the weekend. People enjoyed both Dave Pearson's work and <b>Ashfia Ashrif</b> at Apna in the ground floor room. We made a few sales too...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to <b>Dave Smith</b> for his help on Saturday, and to <b>Ella Cole</b> on Sunday. <b>Yasmine Choudry</b> produced lovely food throughout...It was exciting to talk to so many people who were enthused by their visit. Some regular faces of course, but also many people who were here for the first time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On visitor wanted to track down the mysterious shopper who used to come along regularly to the art shop he worked at in central Manchester, and buy 'armfuls' of inks. This happened so often that they started having to order larger and larger quantities. He wanted to find a photograph of Dave to see if he was indeed the mystery shopper. And yes, he was! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Andy Holt</b> visited too; the first time for a couple years. Andy had advised us, a few years back, on our presentation of Dave's work. Some of his suggestions had been quite radical and made us rethink our attitudes to curating Dave's legacy. Anyway it was encouraging that Andy was very enthusiastic about what he found on this visit. He particularly liked the way that the Apna space and the presence of local Asian women, and Islamic inspired art, gave our building a new sense of life and identity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a quiet couple months, as it usually is over summer, but we're launching the Autumn and Winter season at Dave Pearson's Studio with an exciting new show. It consists of previously unseen paintings that we've had framed especially for the Art Trail. Our good friend (and talented painter himself) Paddy Campbell is framing <b>25 oil paintings</b>, and next week we'll be hanging them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you can't make the weekend, the show will stay up over the Winter, and it's easy to phone or email us to make an appointment. We'll also put the pieces up on <b>our shop</b> - <a href="http://dspearsonshop.co.uk/">dspearsonshop.co.uk</a> - and they can all be bought online. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we've hung a small show at The Whitaker, Rawtenstall. It's a selection of a dozen pieces by Dave Pearson from his series of works made between 1973 and 1985, based on British (mainly English) <b>Calendar Customs</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's all part of the <b>Rossendale Heritage Festival</b>, which includes a wide range of events from Bengali stand-up comedy to Lancashire dialect poetry. It embraces the traditional Carnival held at the Bacup and Stacksteads end of the Valley, as well as the Larks of Dean quire, Waterfoot Wakes, heritage readings and storytelling by Hina Qureshi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've taken over one of the two upstairs galleries at the Whitaker, our local museum. The other room is being converted into a pop-up cinema and there will be showings of <b>Derek Smith</b>'s film about Dave Pearson, along with <b>Arcadia</b>, a much acclaimed film shown on BB2 earlier this year which uses old film footage to paint a wild, dark and slyly humorous look at English traditional customs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout 2018 I was talking with the Art Fund about donating a small collection of work by Dave Pearson to a museum or art gallery. The series of drawings were being gifted by a collector who wished to remain anonymous. They were from a series of beautiful graphite drawings that Dave called 'In The Seven Woods', and they were inspired by the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. Here's a selection of the work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's good to see Dave's work getting publicity in this way, and interesting that these pieces have ended up in a collection dedicated to the 'life and traditions of the English countryside' which Dave immersed himself in the mid-1970s and 80s when he produced his "Calendar Customs' and 'In The Seven Woods' series.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"(his)...own series of self-images exceeds both Van Gogh and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rembrandt in terms of number. They show a huge range of stylistic flexibility, with each change of style reflecting a change of mood."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the Dave Pearson Trust existed it took the decision to limit the number of <b>self-portraits</b> sold, in part because the family were uncertain as to which they were prepared to sell. More recently we've held a small exhibition of self-portraits at the Studio, and not surprisingly there is growing interest among collectors in these pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are over 120 self-portraits in the catalogue of Dave's work, and it would be interesting to look more closely at these and see what are the main stylistic variations. Then to see how they reflect and portray the mood of the artist, as suggested by Lucie-Smith. </span>Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-42875756284720212982019-04-13T19:27:00.001+01:002019-04-13T19:30:16.222+01:00Easter 2019 Open Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a very enjoyable opening of the studio on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Just about all our visitors stayed for longer than an hour, and it was good to talk about Dave Pearson's work with other local artists, a handful of ladies from <b>Apna</b> (who share our building), and various friends - some of whom had travelled to Haslingden from Shropshire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We made a few sales on Saturday and also met with <b>Sara Riccardi</b>, an Italian art historian who has recently moved to Rawtenstall and has already made an impact by starting a series of talks on women artists. Sara runs <b>Artcross</b> (<a href="http://www.artcross.co.uk/">www.artcross.co.uk</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also took ownership of a stunning <b>triptych</b> which had been in private hands. It's unusual in being of a size which makes it possible to hang in a domestic setting. Most of Dave's triptychs are too large for other than gallery walls. Please contact us if you want to view:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>According to McGee</b> gallery in York have asked us to show alongside Harry Malkin in an exhibition due to open on Saturday 6th April. We've chosen a selection of small canvases that Dave painted in the late 1990s and which demonstrate many of the traits of his Byzantium work (<i>example above</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time we're revamping the display at the studio <b>54 Manchester Road</b> in Haslingden, to show a range of Dave's work that has been framed, and is ready for sale. We'll be choosing a day or two during the Easter period to open the building for anyone interested in dropping by. Details soon...</span></div>
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Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-61186013504846050302019-01-14T12:56:00.000+00:002019-01-14T12:56:41.726+00:00Van Gogh's 'Bedroom'<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the process of tidying up my office I just came across some old photos of Dave's. They were mostly from the late 1960s, about the time I first met him. It's when he was in the middle of a period of work which was totally dominated by <b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>. He worked in all mediums, but the biggest and most impressive pieces were large <b>paper-mache reconstructions</b> of some of Van Gogh's painting. Nearly all of Dave's work from this period has gone - either fallen apart or broken up to make space for later pieces. </span></div>
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Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-2287205988733480522019-01-01T12:25:00.001+00:002019-01-01T12:25:17.838+00:00New Year - and a Sale! <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But one surprise was that the prints - the <b>etchings and drypoints</b> that make up two of the seven categories on sale - didn't sell better than they did. I hoped that they would do well on-line, in part because they can be viewed quite well on a screen. This is in contrast to the paintings where, inevitably, the details of the brushwork get lost. Below are details of four example prints:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Admittedly they have to be sold at a price that covers the printing costs, because unlike the other work which is simply in storage at the studio, we have to ask the master printer <b>Alan Birch </b>to create new editions for us, and cover his costs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we're trying out a new idea - which is to join the January sales, and reduce the price of each print by £100! It will be interesting to see if this results in selling some of these wonderful artworks. They are all in verified limited editions, and once sold this won't be repeated.</span><br />
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Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-59952040871170586422018-12-07T15:16:00.001+00:002018-12-08T16:10:51.090+00:00The DP Shop...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The previous blog was about setting up <b>our on-line shop</b> selling only original artwork by Dave Pearson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've been able to do this fairly easily because of our cataloguing of Dave's work being done with software that has recently been fully connected with the internet, and hence enabled web trading. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So three weeks ago we put our shop on-line with <b>7 galleries of artworks</b>, and an eighth gallery where we could sell our film and catalogues. In total we put up <b>120 pieces</b> of Dave's artwork for sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then we've sold well. With nothing to compare it to I imagined that we might, if things went well, sell perhaps one item a week. In fact we've sold more than three times that. Our very recent sales include the following pieces:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The experience has been an exciting one. It's been great to discover that on-line selling can be fun, and we've made contact with new buyers and enthusiasts for Dave's work as a result. We've also had to learn fast about packaging and mailing out artwork...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the New Year we'll update our stock to keep things fresh and lively. To take a close look simply go to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dspearsonshop.co.uk/">www.dspearsonshop.co.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've now completed the first-stage of our on-line gallery which makes it much easier to purchase original works by Dave Pearson through the new <b>Dave Pearson Studio website</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've selected <b>120 pieces</b> <b>of work</b> by Dave which are now available for sale directly. They can be paid for on-line by card or via Paypal. Postage and packing is included in the price, and we guarantee to post out within 7 days. Because the purchase is directly with the studio we've been able to keep the prices down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have used <a href="https://www.artlooksoftware.com/" target="_blank"><b>Artlook Software</b></a> to help us with this process from the beginning, and have been very impressed with it. Especially since it recently upgraded to a fully digital cloud-based application. Now, when we look at our catalogue on a screen, we see something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's easy to scroll through and call up and look more closely at individual items. It tells us whether a work has been sold or not, its price and year of origin. It's also simple to search for work under a wide range of category headings. So, for example, we can just just select 'etchings' and the screen will show only the etchings within the catalogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We're often asked about the quantity of work created by Dave. Ella completed her cataloguing at roughly item number 13,500. But the catalogue started at number 110 rather than 0, and although the occasional mistake can be easily altered or modified, each change will move the numbering forward by one. So it might be more realistic to say that there are about 13,000 items in the catalogue. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>However Dave's many sketch books, many of which contain between 50 and 100 drawings, have simply been catalogued each as a single item. Similarly some folders of work (mainly sketches or monoprints) have been catalogued in the same way. In addition to this, we have never catalogued most of the the very early work, which is stored under not very good conditions in the cellar. It's mostly in poor condition but must amount in total to several hundred pieces. Finally, I estimate that there are perhaps 2,000 pieces of work at Dave's old house, now with his son Chris. So, taking these things into account there are probably about 15,500 pieces of work, in total, by Dave Pearson.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But - and its a big but, Dave never threw anything away. This has been very helpful in tracking his work through from its inception in sketch form through to the completed pieces. But it also means that there's a considerable amount of work which are best considered as sketches, sometimes scribbles, or as trial pieces, and as test pieces. I think, had Dave lived, he would certainly have rejected some of these and have archived them, and removed them from the catalogue of his work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking at this issue - and dealing with it - will be one of our major challenges in the forthcoming year or so. It might well mean that the estimated 15.500 pieces of Dave Pearsons catalogued work will finally be reduced to a catalogue raisonne of half that number, or even fewer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are most frequently works not by 'our' Dave Pearson at all. There are one or two other </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">artists out there going by the same name. Fortunately their work is immediately recognisable as being by a different artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But yesterday I received a query about a print, and the sender sent me several photographs of it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interestingly it was signed, as an artists proof, by Dave, and dated 1980. It also had a title 'The Plough Jags of Burringham'. This information has been very helpful as we've not had an accurate date until now as to when Dave made the series of prints based on English Calendar Customs. Neither did we know exactly what the subject was. But with a little research I've found that 'The Plough Jags' are a folk group of mummers from the East Midlands, and Dave would probably have found a photograph of them during his researches into calendar customs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we're been able to update our own records, and include this information on the Dave Pearson on-line shop, where freshly printed copies of the etching are currently available:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's also given us further clues about a series of very large pastel drawings made by Dave Pearson. We knew that these were of English folk groups and customs, but were less certain as to their date. It means that almost certainly they were also done sometime around 1980:</span></div>
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Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-12084339300707679642018-10-12T18:02:00.000+01:002018-10-12T18:05:56.987+01:00RAT 2018<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last weekend was the annual local open studios event - <b>Rossendale Art Trail</b>, or RAT for short. We took part as ever (it would be hard not to as I'm the coordinator). This year our sister organisation, Apna Rossendale, also offered a very special exhibition. The Slough based artist <b>Shamina Haq, who</b> not only exhibited a number of her geometric pieces but was present throughout, giving demonstrations and discussing her work with visitors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The event naturally brought a larger proportion of visitors from the South Asian heritage communities, and most extended their visit and came upstairs to see the selection of smaller Byzantium-series panels by Dave Pearson. We had well over 100 visitors who came to see us during the weekend, and we also sold four pieces - a gouache, two prints and a ink and watercolour drawing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past month or so Ella and I have been working on designing and setting up an <b>on-line gallery and shop</b> where Dave's work can be browsed through and items can be purchased directly. We've been able to do this through our links with Artlook Software, who designed the software for the catalogue that we've been using these past 8 years. Yesterday the site finally went live! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please visit us! We would be grateful to receive your feedback. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've started out with just a fairly small selection of works on paper, prints and small gouaches and oil paintings. Things we know that we'll be able to mail out safely and at reasonable cost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hope to expand the work available on-line through time, as we get used to how on-line shopping works. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many thanks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been working with Ella Cole to create a new <b>on-line shop</b> for purchasing Dave Pearson's work. It's an opportunity that has grown from upgrading the Artlook software that Ella has been using these past few years to catalogue Dave Pearson's work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of last year Artlook undertook a major overhaul of their software which enabled the catalogue to benefit from cloud technology for storage and our Macs to easily engage with a catalogue which previously been limited to PCs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the best things about these changes is that the new software comes with a website which can be fairly easily made into a shop for selling work. We hope that this will go live in a few weeks time, and at the moment we're creating some groupings of Dave's work for the experiment. Initially we will be offering some of his colourful <b>Byzantium gouaches</b>, a selection of etchings based on <b>British Calendar Customs</b>, smaller Byzantium-themed <b>oil paintings</b>, and other <b>works on paper</b>. </span></div>
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<br />Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-24924647137800915412018-07-31T17:51:00.002+01:002018-07-31T18:10:55.990+01:00Return<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's a week left of the 'Return to Byzantium' exhibition at the Turnpike, and I've revisited several times this last month. There's also been some great feedback, and a couple of reviews including one online from <b>Corridor8</b>:</span></div>
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<br />Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-44925612743090382792018-06-27T18:25:00.000+01:002018-06-27T18:25:00.397+01:00Self-portraits: a showcase <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're holding a <b>Special Open Day this Sunday, 1st July from 11am until 7pm</b>. We've remounted the gallery areas in the old studio at<b> 54 Manchester Road in Haslingden, BB4 5TE</b>, and we're showing a selection of over 40 of Dave Pearson's self-portraits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are invited to join us for this informal showing of some of Dave's least exhibited works - an intimate collection of paintings that reflect a wide range of moods and styles. Light refreshments will be available - access is up stairs, and sadly with no wheelchair provision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This collection is in complete contrast to the exhibition currently showing at <b>the Turnpike</b> in Leigh, which is exhibiting a number of the huge <b>Byzantium </b>paintings from the 1990s. Many of the portraits will be contemporary with the Turnpike paintings, yet show a totally different side of the artist's vision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also showing will be a small collection in the <b>Apna</b> space at 54 Manchester Road. These are fabrics created by local South Asian heritage women, and until recently they were on show at Manchester's <b>Whitworth Art Gallery.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were from workshops led by Rossendale artist <b>Alan Birch</b>, in which he used Dave's <b>'Calendar Custom' </b>prints as inspiration (above). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The show is at the gallery until Saturday 4th August. Opening hours are <span style="font-size: 17px;">Tuesday – Friday </span><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10am – 4pm; </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">Saturdays</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10am - 2pm. The gallery is above Leigh Library, Civic Square, WN7 1EB.</span></b></span>Bob Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332545122146239953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830966232281478707.post-54509980493018134212018-06-19T19:36:00.002+01:002018-06-19T19:36:36.911+01:00The Turnpike, Leigh<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition is going up in readiness for its opening this Thursday evening. <b>Helen Stalker, Matt Retallick and the team at the Turnpike</b> have been as helpful as anyone could have hoped, and already its looking fantastic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's not been much for Ella, Alastair, or myself to do as they have an experienced team hanging the paintings. Other than driving over and unloading yesterday, and then laying out the work as we wanted it, everything else has been done by the gallery. Today, having noted some bad scratches in one or two places, I came back with Dave's restorers kit, and Ella brought her distilled water and baby wipes to clean the few dirty patches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gallery itself is now looking classy, and their refurb has worked really well. In addition Helen has arranged a whole raft of activities that have been inspired by the exhibition. Our friend, the artist <b>Alan Birch</b> has been working with local schools including <b>Moorside Primary School </b>and <b>Bedford High</b>, to create prints inspired by Dave's 'Calendar Customs'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artists from <b>Pen Chant</b> are showing their dance-and-poetry work inspired by Dave Pearson <b>'Newfangled!'</b> on Friday evening at 7.30pm, and on Saturday 23rd there's a new idea being tried - <b>a community lunch</b> between 12midday and 2pm. There have been a number of community workshops too, including work with Roma children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hearing and seeing all of this going on alongside a show which returns to the material Dave created for the 1994 exhibition has been very inspiring. Although the lighting still has to be put on the canvases, the smaller works still have to be hung, and a final tidy before the gallery opens for Thursday, its already clear that this is going to be a very special event and one that the Studio is proud of being part of.</span></div>
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