Commissions

Mark undertakes a variety of commissions working closely with you. From small works on paper to very large oils on canvas, he will be able to capture your favourite view, landscape, cityscape or portrait.

This is how the process works: We have an initial meeting to discuss your ideas and develop an agreed brief to follow. This will include the size, medium & price. Mark will then prepare an initial sketch before starting on either the canvas (for oils) or paper (for acrylic paintings). He will work on site and/or use photographs; paintings are then completed in the studio. There will be up to three review stages to enable you will be able to give your feedback & suggest alterations before completion of the piece.

Prices start at £500 & we are happy to accept payment with interest-free instalments.

For further information please contact Nic on 07739 708 388 or pearson.nic@gmail.com

Examples of Previously Commissioned Work

Client Brief

Lee & Suzie wanted a very large canvas to depict the scene outside their home in the lively street of Bellenden Road. Their front room looks out to the street from the first floor, and they spend time with their two young children looking at the comings & goings in the street below. They wanted Mark to capture the life & vibrancy of the street including the elements of street furniture (rubbish bins, bicycles), the wall art & graffiti, as well as the variety of different people in this diverse community in Peckham.

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‘This was a lovely experience from start to finish. Mark and Nic were wonderful to work with. We found it so enjoyable thinking and talking about the composition with Mark. The finished result absolutely captured the liveliness and character we were looking for. We really couldn’t be happier!’

Lee & Suzie

Client Brief

Ruth commissioned Mark to produce a painting for her husband’s 40^th birthday. The delightful subject matter was a view from Telegraph Hill looking to the City of London. Mark met the clients in the park to agree on the composition & the key elements that they wanted to be included in the piece. This shows the route they take when the children go to nursery; the family group are depicted on the path. They wanted the atmosphere of the park to reflect the different people using it, e.g. the dog walkers, the tree colours and the accuracy of the buildings were also important. One of the children asked that a cat be included, this can be seen to the left-hand side of the painting in the grass!

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Mark and Nic were an absolute pleasure to work with and we are so happy with the result, which came out even better than I had imagined. It's a piece which will forever remind us of a very special time in our lives and the part of London we call home’

Ruth

Client Brief

The initial commission was a landscape painting of the front garden and the house exterior, to capture the mature planting in the garden with its large variety of flowers and plants. The time of year was significant; early summer to portray the wisteria in full bloom with a classic summer sky. There were also important details of the house to include, such as the stained-glass window.

The clients were so pleased with the picture that they commissioned a second painting of the rear of the house & garden. This view was captured in autumn, reflecting a very different colour palette to the first piece. The tree to the left of the composition was a favourite of theirs, it had to be removed from the garden so they wanted a memory of it. The interior of the house was simplified & the light source was important to reflect this. The house was architecturally accurate, as was the placement of the garden furniture

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Client Brief

Laura & her family had previously lived in Peckham and had now relocated to Manchester. She wanted a painting to reflect the happy times they spent in the area, specifically in this large urban park, as a memory of a point in time when the children were young. Mark took different elements of the featured landscape to make the composition to include all the aspects that were important to the client: the wisteria over the Victorian arch, the family area in the park with its distinctive fallen tree and the details of the houses & roads in the background. The figures in the painting were also important to Laura, not only her family group (seen to the left) but also the other characters in the park reflecting the diversity of the local community.

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Client Brief

This urban landscape was one of the client’s businesses and he wanted a painting of this scene to display in his office. James liked the tree in autumn with the striking red foliage and he wanted Mark to depict local people on the street and the correct details of the shop front & the other buildings were important to be reflected accurately. James also had a print made of his painting.

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‘It was a pleasure working with Mark and I was extremely pleased with end result. I hope to work together again in the future’

James

Client Brief

Helen commissioned Mark to paint a family scene as a surprise present for her husband Adrian’s 40^th birthday. This interior was a painting in acrylic & ink on paper, framed with art glass. Helen wanted Mark to capture the family group in a moment of time when the three children were young, in an informal & relaxed setting. Details of their clothes, toys & books were considered in the composition.

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‘We are delighted with the painting Mark did for us and he has managed to successfully capture a precious moment in our lives that we want to hold on to as our children grow up. Mark was such a joy to work with and did all he could to get the picture right: my husband is overjoyed with it and loves that he spots new details each time he looks at it’.

Helen

Client Brief

James commissioned a large oil painting of a summer scene in Peckham Rye Park, local to where he spends many hours with his family. He wanted his children in the painting, and then towards the end of the project Mark also included James & his wife. There were other specific elements that James wanted to include, such as the buses and for Mark to capture the busy atmosphere of the park showing the diverse community in Peckham.

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“Mark managed to beautifully capture both Peckham Rye in the late spring, just as London is emerging from hibernation, as well as our two boys at a very special point in their lives (where they enjoy climbing trees and collecting sticks, not playing Fortnite), in what is a very special painting”

James

Client Brief

This street scene of Deptford High Street was commissioned by a GP practice as a retirement gift for one of their colleagues, who had been practicing over 30 years in the area and was dedicated to helping his patient in the locality. Most of the figures in the painting are the staff members; using photos and sketches Mark placed them in the composition in different groups.

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''Mark very kindly agreed to paint a commission for our medical practice in Deptford, where a long-serving GP was retiring; this was to be his leaving gift. Mark was hugely enthusiastic about the project and spend considerable time researching and painting the piece. While painting on Deptford High Street he appears to have struck up some friendships with the very patients the retiring doctor used to serve! We loved the way he captured the beautiful chaos of Deptford High Street, which in character has a lot in common with Rye Lane in Peckham, Mark’s usual choice of location. The retiring GP was very pleased with the image Mark created, which included cameos of multiple staff members strolling down the street - this was a clever, personal touch. The image itself was so popular that several staff members ordered prints for their own homes. Thanks, Mark and Nic for helping our colleague mark the end of his long NHS career with a gift that will remind him of our corner of London forever.''

Sam Wessley

Client Brief

Nick & Jayne had lived in this beautiful period house for many decades and were now relocating to the North. They wanted Mark to capture the house in Spring with the tree in full blossom. Also, very important to them was the inclusion of their two dogs on the steps, plus a reminder of their previous pet Jacobi. He can just be seen peeping out of one of the windows.

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‘‘We have known Mark through his art and as a wonderful local resident for many years and lucky enough to already own one of his stunning earlier pieces. We lived in Peckham for 30 years before we moved back to North Yorkshire last summer and as the house was so very dear to us, we thought what better way to remember it than to have it painted in all its Springtime glory. I knew that Mark would be able to capture what it was about the house that everyone loved and he very kindly agreed to undertake the commission. The finished work was so much more than we had even hoped for and everyone is drawn to it. It will always bring a tear of nostalgic joy to my eye. Mark is an outstanding artist and a very intuitive and lovely man who really takes the time and effort to perfectly understand, interpret and bring so much life and character to his subject. We shall remain forever grateful’'.

Jayne & Nicholas

Client Brief

Rhys & Emel had previously lived in one of the flats depicted here on Rye Lane and having moved away they wanted a reminder of their time in Peckham. The painting is based on a smaller less detailed piece they initially saw on Instagram; they are featured in the composition as are other aspects personal to them – e.g a good friend, animals & a bicycle. The other figures were chosen from characters appearing in a selection of Mark’s other works of the area.

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‘We discovered Mark’s paintings via Instagram, having lived in Peckham for many years we felt an instant connection with his work. His unique approach to capture the life and soul of the vibrant streets of SE15 mesmerised us! The first step was to view Mark’s work in person and we did so in his lovely home/studio in Peckham not completely knowing what we wanted to achieve. Mark and his wife Nic were both incredibly welcoming and showed us a variety of his work and discussed many different options with us. We decided to commission a painting of our flat we used to live in inspired by a past painting of Mark’s. Mark was incredibly enthusiastic to take on our project and our ideas started to flow and form within minutes of our first meeting. We formed a great working relationship with him and Nic; he was happy to add and change parts of the painting along the way to make it personal to us and was very patient and accommodating. We are extremely happy with the end result and just can’t wait to hang it on our wall in our new home!’

Rhys & Emel

Client Brief

This is a view of Peckham Rye Park showing the playground & café to the left. It was commissioned by Andrew as a surprise 40^th birthday present for his wife Emma. Andrew & Emma lived very close to the park, and as they were moving away, he wanted this scene to be a reminder of their many happy years here with their two children. The family are shown to the right-hand side of the composition.

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Mark & Nic were a pleasure to work with from start to finish – patient, helpful and professional. We are delighted with the final result.’

Andrew & Emma

Client Brief

Mike wanted Mark to capture the stunning view of the City of London from this ancient woodland hill; the painting is a juxtaposition of the old and new. The season was important to Mike who wanted a winter scene with limited foliage so as not to obstruct the view and the buildings to be accurate. This was a ‘pure’ landscape with no figures in it, again at Mike’s request. Part of the composition was left entirely to Mark’s discretion, such as the sky and the foreground.

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‘’My family and I are delighted with our painting, and I would be happy to speak to anyone considering commissioning a painting from Mark’’

Mike Smith

Client Brief

Four siblings commissioned Mark to paint individual portraits as a surprise present for their mother’s special birthday. This was a challenging project in lockdown for the siblings to sit in very difficult (& secret!) circumstances, and in fact for one of these Mark had to work from photographs alone. The four portraits are all very different in Mark’s interpretation with varying use of light and tone to portray their likenesses.

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‘’The best part of my 60th lockdown birthday celebrations with my husband and children was in the evening when I had a surprise extra gift from my eldest daughter Phoebe. I was given four beautiful portraits of my four children as the gorgeous wonderful adults that they have become. And to top it off they were by my favourite local artist Mark Pearson. I have several of his paintings of Peckham but his portraits are another level again. He managed to capture not only what they look like but their personalities too. They will forever be my favourite possession ever’’.

Janet Newman

Client Brief

This was a surprise birthday present for Sophie’s husband. She had seen a post on Instagram of a bar scene that Mark had painted some years ago, the idea was to recreate this but with Sophie as the figure in the picture and with references to specific bottles of alcohol on the shelves. These would be recognisable to her husband who works in the drinks industry. This was also a challenge to compete in lockdown, with Sophie posing in the freezing cold in a backless dress in Mark’s front garden!

Client Brief

Wendy wanted a very large canvas to replace a painting currently hanging in her home. She was open a number of suggestions based on a series of very different ideas. Mark prepared small oil paintings in the same proportions to the large canvas size; a view of Wendy’s local park was decided upon, based on an atmospheric photograph that she had taken. It was important to Wendy that the colours in the painting complemented the décor in her room and that it would be mainly about the landscape, with a few figures within the composition.