Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life.
His learning disabilities gave his art, in the words of Peter Lanyon, an "awareness more direct" than pure observation.
In the second half of his career a good deal of his work was produced and sold in the form of prints in relatively small signed, numbered editions.
Some of these were small hand-made etchings, with which the artist had a 'hands on' creative involvement; others were full size screenprints made by printer-craftsmen 'after' works in other media.
The latter certainly render just over twenty of Pearce's original images, with their pure, expansive areas of specific colours, extremely convincingly.
In October 2011, his St. Ives (all round) 1977, oil on board 24" x 45½", exceeded the pre-sale top estimate at Christies three times over, selling for £55250 (including buyer's premium) making it the most expensive Pearce to-date.