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JOHN PIPER
(John Egerton Christmas Piper)
b. Surrey, UK 1903–1992
ABOUT
John Egerton Christmas Piper was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach, but often worked in several different styles throughout his career. Piper was an official war artist in World War II and his wartime depictions of bomb-damaged churches and landmarks, During WWI Piper was inspired by artists of the avant-garde like his friend Alexander Calder though the conclusion of the war provoked a move to representational subjects and inclusion in the Seven and Five Society (dedicated to a “return to order” in post-war art). WWII was also of great impact to Piper's work—selected as the official war artist he depicted the ruins of the England employing his aptitude for depicting landscapes and imperial homes to portray the loss and aftermath of bombings. Often painting at night with buildings still ablaze Piper created impassioned representations of the wartime atmosphere defining a romantic perspective of architecture and topography engrained in his work thereafter. Later, Piper collaborated with many others, including the poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson on the Shell Guides, the potter Geoffrey Eastop and the artist Ben Nicholson.He later branched out creating designs for stained glass, pottery, textiles and stage sets as well as writing on art and architecture.
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ABSTRACTION
Here's a few of Piper's beautiful abstract collage, mixed media works.
As well being displayed in galleries, many of these were adapted and concepted into stainglass windows, set designs and surface design patterns.
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