Born in Davao City, the artist, Pia Rowena Belardo, spent her childhood years in the environs of San Juan and Pasig. She took her elementary and secondary education at the Maryknoll College in Quezon City, while her college years were spent at the College of the Holy Spirit in Manila, where she took up Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Interior Design. Her background in the arts and the opportunities it gave her in experimenting with various art media would serve her well in her present avocation.

After graduating in 1988, she worked for several interior design outfits where she gained experience in furniture design, window displays, etc. Several years later, she became fascinated with and gradually made the transition into the world of computers. The years that she spent teaching computer applications at the Futurekids, Shangri-la branch in Mandaluyong City, would intensify her interest in computer graphics and computer art.
When not painting, Pia works in the fields of website development, web graphics design, and tutoring people on website design and the use of web publishing applications. Her website, EESP, which documents and tracks the various endemic endangered species in the Philippines has attracted quite a number of environmentalists and biologists all over the world. Another website which she designed and continues to manage, the CHS Alumnae Foundation website, is visited by numerous alumnae of the College of the Holy Spirit, Mendiola.

When Pia turned to painting as a relaxing hobby, she picked the rarely-used melted crayon as her medium, creating colorful canvasses in which nature is clearly her vital inspiration. Her works feature mostly flowers, leaves, and landscapes, all of them reflecting some little-noticed beauty feature of nature. While some dark shadings and earthy colors do reveal a more pensive side, the many bright and cheerful hues that predominate, through her innovative use of color-mixtures, and an interesting variation of strokes make her works come alive with the joy of living and the message that, indeed, beauty is all around us. A must for lovers of nature and its beauty, each Pia Belardo creation is an affirmation of this truth.

Her works have been displayed at the Mondo Bar, at the Fort, and the Contempo Art Gallery, at Cityland, Mandaluyong City, and presented at her previous one-woman exhibit held the Art Circle Gallery, Shangrila Plaza, Mandaluyong City and at the Manansala Hall at the Galleria Suites - Ortigas.