John Piper

John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey and studied at the Richmond School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He was a leading light of the British neo-Romantic movement well known for his landscape paintings. During the 1940s he concentrated on painting decaying country houses, ruined churches and images of desolated bomb-damaged buildings. Tin Mines, St Agnes is one example of such work. Piper was an official World War II artist and received numerous commissions during that time. He also worked with ceramics, illustrated books and designed for the theatre. After the war he was commissioned to design stained glass windows for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Coventry Cathedral. He was a productive writer working for various magazines, such as New Statesman and The Listener. His book British Romantic Artists, an important study of Neo-Romanticism, was published in 1942.

Tin Mines, St Agnes, c.1940s
Pen and ink and watercolour
H36 X W53 cms
Signed: John Piper, St. Agnes.