Rick Pearson-Ocean Spirit
Rick Pearson is a Graphic Artist, Designer, Illustrator, Painter and Muralist who lives in Lampasas, Texas. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration and he has been doing wildlife, science fiction, and visionary art under the company name of Leviathan Productions for over 35 years. In 2015, he changed the name of his company to Ocean Spirit, to better define how he feels about his work. The purpose of his work has always been to celebrate the beauty of nature, and the wonders of the Universe, and thereby to teach others about our fragile planet and hopefully to create the desire to learn more about it, and to protect it.
Rick specializes in doing extremely realistic and detailed drawings and paintings of marine life, especially whales and dolphins, much of it derived from over 45 years of meticulous research into the anatomy and behavior of marine mammals; especially the sperm whale. His cetacean art has been recognized and praised by marine scientists, underwater photographers and conservationists from around the world. He has often donated the use of his work to numerous environmental and wildlife conservation organizations, such as Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, Cetacean Society International, Oceanic Defense The Ocean Alliance, and The World Federation for Coral Reef Conservation.
Rick also has a background in technical illustration, as well as scientific illustration, and he has used his expertise and talents to do sci-fi and fantasy art, as well as visionary art, since his early teens. He has often hung his award-winning sci-fi fan art at local science fiction conventions, and he has done numerous covers and interior illustrations for sci-fi fanzines and fan publications from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Most of Rick’s work is available for sale, as both high quality photo-prints and Giclees, as well as on T-shirts, mouse pads, coffee mugs, greeting and note cards, etc., at several print-on-demand web stores such as Café Press, Zazzle, and Imagekind. Rick also sells many of his originals, and gladly accepts commission work, as well. He can also make and sell high-quality photo-prints, done with archival inks, from his studio, up to 19 x 13 inches.
During 2004-2005, Rick started a new phase of his art business, by doing his first murals, at a local public swimming pool. Since then he has painted several more murals, and he is available to paint murals either on-site, or in his studio on canvas or large panels that can then be delivered and installed at the desired location.
Starting in the fall of 2005, Rick decided to start volunteering to paint healing murals for children with various types of illnesses, and in early 2006, he had the chance to paint a brand new mural for a family in nearby Killeen, Texas, who had a son with a terminal illness. He has since set up a non-profit organization, called "A Brush With Healing", that provides similar murals, for free, for any child that has a serious illness, and for local hospitals, clinics, homeless shelters, etc., anyplace where healing is needed.
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In February of 2020, Rick became a member of the Ocean Artists Society, a worldwide organization of artists, underwater photographers, and filmmakers who have joined together to use their talents to raise awareness of the issues that face the oceans of the world, and therefor all life on Earth; because if the oceans die, we all die.