John Luke Mural

Mural by John Luke



Provincial Grand Lodge Room
Provincial Masonic Hall Rosemary Street, Belfast


Son of a boiler maker John Luke became one of Ulster's best-known painters. He studied in Belfast and London and thereafter spent most of his career in Belfast, with the exception of a period during the second world war when he stopped painting for a time and retired to a cottage in Co. Armagh, earning his living by teaching art at Manor House school. In the mid-1930s, he adopted the highly precise and stylised technique of painting which has become virtually synonymous with his name.


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