Painter and teacher who divided his research work into three areas: painting, exhibition curating and Australian studies. Within the painting field he specialised in landscape, mainly in water-based media on paper. Pierce was a member of the RWS, WSW and regularly contributed to national open shows. He attended Saturday classes at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1973–5, and Slade School of Fine Art, 1975–9. He won a Boise Scholarship and Melville Nettleship Prize, both 1979. In 1980–1 gained an Italian Government Scholarship. Pierse taught for a time in Essex. He showed at Opix Gallery from 1979 and Woodlands Art Gallery from 1980, in 1985 being included in Figurative Painters there. In 1992 Pierse joined the visual art department at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, as tutor in studio studies and art history, the following year being included in Aberystwyth Artists at The Deffett Francis Gallery, Swansea Institute of Higher Education.