Saturday 8th October 10.30am - 12 noon
Tickets £10
Ardhowen Theatre
Behind The Eyes : Richard Pierce gives a personal account of the inner lives behind famous self-portraits.
Richard Pierce has been involved in painting all his life and is particularly fascinated by self-portraits. During this lecture Richard will entertain us with stories of his own forays into portraiture, both as artist and subject, and deliver his analysis of the characters and personalities behind some of the most revealing and astonishing self-portraits ever painted.
Retired from his own successful architectural practice after four decades, Richard Pierce has always been involved in all the arts. In recent years, he has exhibited his abstract photographs in one-man shows and is now engaged in producing a coffee-table book of his photographs of the counties through which the Erne flows. In September/October of this year there will be a one-man show of his abstract photographs in the Fort de la Galline near Banyuls in the South of France. In his teens, taught violin by Joan Wilson, he was leader of the Portora Orchestra and once led the Ulster Youth Orchestra in the Whitla Hall, Belfast. Voice-trained by James Shaw in Belfast, Richard sang solo rôles for Pimlico Opera in London.
In public life, he has been on the boards of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, the Ormeau Baths Gallery, the Ulster Museum and the Arts Council for Northern Ireland, where he chaired the Visual Arts Committee. He now chairs Music in Fermanagh, which brings world-class classical music to the Ardhowen Theatre. Throughout his life he has been involved in painting. He won the Wakeman Prize for Painting at Portora in the 1960s and has shown his oil paintings and, more often, his watercolours at group and one-man shows in the intervening years. He has always enjoyed other artists’ work, both historical and current, and is a keen visitor to galleries and museums all over the world.
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