Alcock, Pearl
In de 50-er jaren verhuisde Pearl Alcock vanuit Jamaica naar London. Ze begon een kledingwinkeltje en café, maar de zaken liepen spaak na de Brixton rellen in London, in 1985. In haar armoede begon ze te tekenen, tot grote bewondering van haar vrienden. Schilderen werd haar grote passie, tot aan haar dood in 2006.
Pearl’s paintings fit into three categories: narrative portraits, mostly without titles, although she conjures some up on the spot – ‘The Africans’, ‘Woman and T’ief’, ‘Mermaid’ and ‘Merman’; flowers and abstracts, which create repeated patterns and reveal a tremendous intuitive sense of design. These are easily her most ‘sophisticated’ works in conventional terms. Birds regularly visit her visions, yellow canaries with puffed-up breasts based, elongated blue birds.
From Sue Steward, Outsider dealing, in: The Observer, 29 Oct 2000. theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/oct/29/lifemagazine
Pearl Alcock1934 Jamaica - 2006 London, UK
