Obsessed by the natural world, Bruce works as often as the opportunities arises out in the wild where wildlife and landscape, and sometimes people, interact creating powerful images and dramatic themes. It is the rhythm and restlessness of the natural world which fascinates, and which he tries to capture. The starting point has to be the field experience as pure observation is the raw material. It might be a few small sketches, or a larger and more considered drawing, sometimes even a more ambitious painting which one hopes distils something of the day’s experience, (a hope once best described as, “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting…”.)
Sometimes something straight from the field can be framed and exhibited – what’s left is taken back to the studio to be viewed in a new light and the snatched ideas worked through in different mediums – relief printing (lino and woodcuts), monotype, silk-screen printing, or oil painting
As an artist for almost 30 years Bruce has travelled widely in search of subjects from the Arctic and Antarctica, to Africa, much of Europe, and the Americas. However, most of his time these days is spent in my Cambridgeshire studio – and he loves it!
List of Members
- Richard Allen
- Carry Akroyd
- Max Angus
- Kim Atkinson
- Priscilla Barrett
- David Bennett
- Adam Binder
- Diana Brown
- Hilary Burn
- P.K.J. Burton
- Daniel Cole
- Fiona Clucas
- Neil Dalrymple
- Nick Derry
- John Davis
- Barry Van Dusen
- Brin Edwards
- Victoria Edwards
- Carl Ellis
- Robert Gillmor
- John Foker
- Federico Gemma
- Madeline Goold
- Robert Greenhalf
- Simon Gudgeon
- Michael Hampton
- Andrew Haslen
- Kendra Haste
- Gary Hodges
- Richard Johnson
- Rosalie Johnson
- Kittie Jones
- Szabolcs Kokay
- Rachel Lockwood
- Julia Manning
- Harriet Mead
- Sally Michel
- Jill Moger
- William Neill
- John Paige
- David Parry
- Peter Partington
- Bruce Pearson
- Antonia Phillips
- Nik Pollard
- Greg Poole
- Alastair Proud
- John Reaney
- Darren Rees
- Andrea Rich
- Chris Rose
- Christopher Schmidt
- Dafila Scott
- Chris Sinden
- Jane Smith
- Andrew Stock
- Thelma Sykes
- John Threlfall
- Richard Tratt
- Esther Tyson
- Simon Turvey
- Matthew Underwood
- Chris Wallbank
- Michael Warren
- Tim Wootton
- Ben Woodhams
- Darren Woodhead