ANY artists would use their angst to fuel their creativity and at one time, 20-year-old Roann Pierre was no different. As time passed, however, she found happiness in her art and worked on perfecting her craft.

Pierre has been steadily making a name for herself. She is a full-time artist working diligently to purchase her own studio.
“My ultimate goal is to master realism and become an inspiration to other artists coming up,” she told the Pepperpot Magazine.
But she likes being alone when she draws because people can be a distraction. And drawing late at night into the morning is where she finds her comfort.
This perhaps attributes to her being a bit of an introvert but she’s working hard to improve her ‘people’ skills.

Most importantly, however, is that her art must be perfect; there is absolutely no room for error. “I’m kind of something of a perfectionist when it comes to drawing,” Pierre highlighted. And this is not just with her but with the work of others as well. “If I go to an exhibition and I see another artist’s work, I would think to myself that I can do it too.”
She also explained that she is more inclined to draw ‘realism’, which is the drawing of detailed real and factual descriptions.
Realism became her speciality and she actually garnered huge motivation from patrons and other artists who would egg her on.

“Honestly, I was into art all my life, [it’s] just that I didn’t know,” Roann said. Since her tender nursery school days, she would be the best at drawing. Then in primary school, her teachers noticed she would pay keen attention to drawing diagrams exactly from the textbooks but it wasn’t until Fourth Form, in secondary school, when she really started to get pushed by her art teacher. As a result of that, she chose art as one of the subjects she wrote for her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
“She [her art teacher] taught me the basics, which back then was a huge deal for me,” Pierre related.

And she thought about furthering her studies in art but according to her, “life got in the way.” For a while too she was without her art, but she found her back to it since it helped her go through troubling times. It was her escape, as she says, “My own little world away from reality.”

Getting back into art was surprisingly easy. She actually tried out drawing architecture and noted that she was surprised that she was capable of doing that.

Perfecting her craft was always on her agenda however and she never stopped learning, even if it meant being glued to YouTube learning all day.

“Around last year June I was at the national drawing competition and I met an old Guyanese artist,” she recalled. “He told me don’t let negative energy fuel your art because your art will always depend on being depressed for you to perform.”

So despite using it as an escape from her troubling times, she decided to change her mindset. Roann said that whether she was happy or sad, she just draws. Also, she knows that her art makes other people happy and that of itself makes her happy.

And the support from her family and friends has been overwhelming with her dad actually making the tables she uses to draw on and her friends always sharing her work on social media.

But for the people who do not know the young Pierre, words of discouragement are many. Exasperatedly she explained, that people do not know the amount of work artists put into their pieces.

Pierre says, however, “I don’t lose hope, hopefully, one day my work will be in most households locally and internationally.”

ANY artists would use their angst to fuel their creativity and at one time, 20-year-old Roann Pierre was no different. As time passed, however, she found happiness in her art and worked on perfecting her craft.

Pierre has been steadily making a name for herself. She is a full-time artist working diligently to purchase her own studio.
“My ultimate goal is to master realism and become an inspiration to other artists coming up,” she told the Pepperpot Magazine.
But she likes being alone when she draws because people can be a distraction. And drawing late at night into the morning is where she finds her comfort.
This perhaps attributes to her being a bit of an introvert but she’s working hard to improve her ‘people’ skills.

Most importantly, however, is that her art must be perfect; there is absolutely no room for error. “I’m kind of something of a perfectionist when it comes to drawing,” Pierre highlighted. And this is not just with her but with the work of others as well. “If I go to an exhibition and I see another artist’s work, I would think to myself that I can do it too.”
She also explained that she is more inclined to draw ‘realism’, which is the drawing of detailed real and factual descriptions.
Realism became her speciality and she actually garnered huge motivation from patrons and other artists who would egg her on.

“Honestly, I was into art all my life, [it’s] just that I didn’t know,” Roann said. Since her tender nursery school days, she would be the best at drawing. Then in primary school, her teachers noticed she would pay keen attention to drawing diagrams exactly from the textbooks but it wasn’t until Fourth Form, in secondary school, when she really started to get pushed by her art teacher. As a result of that, she chose art as one of the subjects she wrote for her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
“She [her art teacher] taught me the basics, which back then was a huge deal for me,” Pierre related.
And she thought about furthering her studies in art but according to her, “life got in the way.” For a while too she was without her art, but she found her back to it since it helped her go through troubling times. It was her escape, as she says, “My own little world away from reality.”

Getting back into art was surprisingly easy. She actually tried out drawing architecture and noted that she was surprised that she was capable of doing that.

Perfecting her craft was always on her agenda however and she never stopped learning, even if it meant being glued to YouTube learning all day.

“Around last year June I was at the national drawing competition and I met an old Guyanese artist,” she recalled. “He told me don’t let negative energy fuel your art because your art will always depend on being depressed for you to perform.”

So despite using it as an escape from her troubling times, she decided to change her mindset. Roann said that whether she was happy or sad, she just draws. Also, she knows that her art makes other people happy and that of itself makes her happy.

And the support from her family and friends has been overwhelming with her dad actually making the tables she uses to draw on and her friends always sharing her work on social media.

But for the people who do not know the young Pierre, words of discouragement are many. Exasperatedly she explained, that people do not know the amount of work artists put into their pieces.

Pierre says, however, “I don’t lose hope, hopefully, one day my work will be in most households locally and internationally.”