Glandore Masonic Lodge 551

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.

http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/johnluke.htm

Masonry is the science of life in a society of men, by signs, symbols and ceremonies; having as its basis a system of morality and for its purpose the perfection and happiness of the individual and the race.

G.F. Moore