Peter Pearson - Artist Info

About Peter Pearson

  • Biography

    Peter Pearson, a native of Ireland, is an artist, author, historian, and conservationist born in 1955. He was raised around the Dún Laoghaire area of Ireland.

    He was educated at the institution now known as Newpark Comprehensive School where he was later to return and teach art. He went to read Art History at Trinity College Dublin.

    He held his first major solo exhibition in Venice in 1978 while studying on an Italian Government painting scholarship. He has also exhibited at Caen.

    A short seven minute film for Youngline presented by Teresa Mannion in 1984 showed the artifacts he was amassing in the house in Dublin he was sharing at that time with his brother.

    Mannion describes him thus: "He’s an ordinary man dri...

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