 An unexpected pregnancy changes everything. Pearce had her first daughter at the young age of twenty four. Trying to understand her place in the new roll of mother Pearce searched backward in time through her own past and her family. For many years the picture plane interested Pearce as she would create the frame work for the painting first and work out the imagery after. Untraditional mediums were used such as wood, air drying modelling clay, urethane paint, fabric paint, glue, sparkles and colour copies. Pearce gained national recognition for this work at her showing at The Edmonton Art Gallery in Alberta, 1993 and again at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna, British Columbia the same year. We walk with Pearce through the early years of motherhood and a hopeless marriage. Despite this the work portrays beams of hope and optimism all flowing together with Pearce's child-like energy. |
