Biography
Madeleine Joyce Pearson (née Arkell; b. Lewisham 1910 - d. London 1989), daughter of James Percival Arkell and Madelaine Arkell, who married Henry Ferguson Pearson from Glasgow in 1934. She had studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1927-30 and after her marriage in 1934–5 and 1936–38). She was a member of the WIAC who exhibited in Glasgow, Bristol and the Malay States. She was included in an Arts Council Travelling Exhibition, 1949; and showed at the Leicester Galleries in 1950. In that year she shared an exhibition at the AIA with Margaret Boyd and Alice Lambe. Pearson lived in Highgate, north London, where her house was “a kind of salon” for artists and critics including Kyffin Williams, Lawrence Alloway, Stella Steyn, Frederick Gore and John Cecil Stephenson.
