Jacky Pearson
Jacky was born in 1958 in the UK and moved to New Zealand in 1991. Jacky
has painted and drawn all her life and following a career in
environmental conservation Jacky now paints full-time. She has attended
workshops with many of the worlds top watercolour artists. Solo
exhibitions have included 40 paintings representing the complete series
of all New Zealand's classical coastal lighthouses held in the Museum of
Wellington, City and Sea. These were the originals from her series of
the three Lighthouses of New Zealand calendars (2000, 2001 and 2003).
This completed a five year project to capture, in watercolour, New
Zealand's historic lighthouses, many of them dating to 1865. It involved
helicopter, boat and 4-wheel drive trips to the various sites. Jacky
also researched and wrote a history of all these lighthouses and
interviewed many ex-keepers.
Her work is sold through Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington and Merivale
Fine Arts Gallery in Christchurch. She has been a member of the national
watercolour society, Watercolour New Zealand since 1995 and has
exhibited at all their bi-annual exhibitions. Jacky represented New
Zealand at the 2007 International Biennial Watercolour
exhibition/competition and was subsequently selected to represent New
Zealand in their permanent collection at the International Museum of
Watercolours in Mexico.
Jacky Pearson is an international award-winning artist. She was awarded the public vote for the best painting in Watercolour New Zealand’s December 2008 National Watercolour Exhibition. In 2008 and 2010 Jacky won first prize for the Open Daler-Rowney Watercolour section and in 2009 and 2010 won the Raye Hannan Memorial Trophy for the best Water colour in all categories at the Royal Easter Show in Auckland. Also in 2010 won the Royal Easter Show Gold Medal. Her work features in a book “NZ in Watercolour” October 2008 and she was selected from an international competition to be published in the American watercolour book Splash 11. In 2011 Jacky won the supreme award in national portrait competition Wai Portrait Awards. Her work is held by Wellington and North Shore City Councils and is represented in corporate and private collections both here and overseas.
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