TROUBLED WATERS
TRAILING THE ALBATROSS, AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY
By Bruce Pearson
Wildlife Art Series Volume 35
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2012 1st edition. Large 4to (252 x 313mm). Pp136. Colour illustrations and b/w sketches by the author throughout. Blue boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.
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Volume 35 in the well-thought-of Wildlife Art Series from Langford Press.
"The world's great oceans are largely beyond most people's experience and imagination. But for the past three decades or more, a tragedy has been unfolding out of sight on the open ocean. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds, albatrosses especially, have been snared accidentally by long-line fishing vessels. After living and working among an abundance of albatrosses thirty five years ago on a remote island in the Southern Ocean, Bruce Pearson returned recently to see what had happened to some of the birds he had known so well. Troubled Waters offers insights into our understanding of the seabird's lives and the ocean environment, and which inspires new engagement and identification with an extraordinarily urgent conservation crisis." (Publisher's blurb).
Contents include:- Preface; Foreword; Launching an idea; First encounters; Heading south; Bird Island summers; Hooked and tangled; Drawn south again; Acknowledgements.
About the author: "Bruce Pearson is an award winning visual artist and field naturalist who for 35 years has worked on a range of subjects and themes in the Arctic, the Americas, Africa and Antarctica. It is the rhythm and restlessness of the natural world that fascinates, both in wild landscapes and places where people and human activity interact with habitats to create interesting themes. A painting might be completed directly in the field, while volumes of sketches and studies provide ideas and fresh starting points for painting and printmaking work in the studio. Since the early 1970's his paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in the UK and overseas in many solo and group exhibitions, and he has won awards for his work. He has undertaken a variety of commissions for corporate bodies and individuals, and illustrated a number of books. He has lectured widely on the theme of art and nature, and presented television programmes on similar themes. The artist and author lives in Cambridge, and works from a studio at St. Barnabas Press in the city."