Camo-Flys By Dan Pearce

Dan Pearce - master of mixed media printing - was recently featured in London's Shortlist magazine as one of the UK's most collectable emerging artists. Such an endorsement needs little elaboration: the works speak for themselves. Bold and confident, his prints take inspiration from street and pop art, blending elements of fine art to create an iconic style that carefully blends new, digital media with old school techniques. 'Camo-Flys' enacts a beautiful dialogue between movement and stasis in the printed form: layering PVC butterflies into the shape of a falling WWII bomb, the piece is brimming with life, as each butterfly wing flutters beyond the confines of the print. A pertinent musing on life and death, war and peace, beauty and brutality, Pearce finishes the piece with lashings of spray-paint, ink and resin, splattered across the collage in an array of blue, green, and yellow camouflage shades, for breathtaking texture.