Opening Saturday 9 August 2025. 5-7 pm. Special musical performance by Rory Pierce
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation is proud to present *Janet Pierce: Into the Light*, a solo exhibition by the distinguished Scottish-born, Dublin-based artist Janet Pierce. Running from August 9 to
October 20, 2025, this exhibition brings together new and recent works that explore luminosity, inner vision, and spiritual resonance through richly layered abstraction.
Pierce’s work draws on a lifetime of immersion in the landscapes of Co Fermanagh and Co Monaghan. Her paintings—ethereal yet grounded—serve as meditative spaces that invite reflection and stillness. Known for her use of gold leaf, translucent washes, and sacred symbols, Pierce's visual language bridges the material and the mystical, offering viewers a pathway “into
the light.”
Over more than a decade, Pierce spent winters in India, exhibiting widely in New Delhi and producing a book with acclaimed poet Sudeep Sen. Two significant works from that period—a
painting and a tapestry—are permanently installed in Mageough Chapel in Rathmines, Dublin. Now based in Rathmines after 15 years living in a house she built on the grounds of the Tyrone
Guthrie Centre, Pierce continues to create work that is at once deeply personal and universally
resonant.
A member of Aosdána, she has exhibited extensively in Ireland, the UK, the United States, and India. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, and she has received international recognition, including awards from the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain and the
Sanskriti Foundation in India.
This exhibition marks a significant return to the west of Ireland for an artist whose practice is rooted in silence, spirit, and landscape.
