Simon Pierse

Simon Pierse RWS, Hon. AWI (b.1956)

Simon Pierse is a painter and writer. He was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He is a published art historian with particular interests in Australian art. Simon is a member of the Royal Watercolour Society and served as its Vice President between 2009-12. He is an artist associate member of the Alpine Club, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. Simon paints mainly in oil or watercolour. His work is represented in the Royal Collection; the public collections of London University; La Trobe University, Melbourne; Qingdao Art Museum, China, Dunmoochin Foundation, Melbourne; the Alpine Club, London; FIAF, Abruzzo, Italy; the RWS Diploma Collection; MOMA Wales; the National Library of Wales and the Museum and Gallery of Aberystwyth University, as well as in many private collections worldwide.

Solo Exhibitions

2019-20 Shy Green-Ice Blue, paintings of Greenland,
School of Art Galleries, Aberystwyth University
2019 Icebergs & Northern Lights, Alpine Club, London
2018 Tree Portraits and other paintings, Long Gallery,
Dunmoochin
2009-10  Life-Line: a drawing retrospective, School of Art Galleries, Aberystwyth
2008–9   Sketches from Gran Paradiso, Alpine Club, London
2008  Paintings in the Long Gallery, Dunmoochin, Melbourne
2004  A Sometimes Cloud, Old Fire Engine House, Ely
1999  Paintings of Ladakh, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1998  Recent Paintings, Center Gallery, Glen Arbor, Michigan
1997  A Sunburnt Country, Commonwealth Institute, London
1997  Between Two Worlds: Paintings of Ladakh, Y Tabernacl, MOMA, Wales
1996  The Empty Landscape, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
1995  Red Sands, Blue Gums, Y Tabernacl, MOMA, Wales
1993  St. Martin’s Gallery, Melbourne
1991  Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham
1989  Old Fire Engine House, Ely