Rhianna Pierson is a British figurative painter.
Pierson’s oil paintings capture the ephemeral moment and fragmented memories, creating a dreamlike place suspended in time, contrasting to memory’s fleeting nature. The figuration mostly features unidentified couples, romantic or familial, exploring strong emotions and relationships between them, the artist, and the viewer. Hints of canvas and early layers of paint seep through the painted image, depicting the fragility of memory and life. She renders glimpses of fleeting memories layered together as shifting scenes, with areas of vivid colour and clarity suggestive of significance, and vague blocks of colour or canvas imply things forgotten or removed, the lack of context examining the fogginess of memory. Pierson creates a space where memories are gathered, held and released within the confines of the canvas.