John Piper
6th June to 21st July 2024
Adam’s Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of selected works by one of Britain’s most celebrated artists.
John Piper was born at Epsom in Surrey, 1903. Following his father’s wishes, he spent 5 years in the family law firm before pursuing art, firstly at Richmond School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art. In the 1930s Piper exhibited abstract pictures and constructions, then reverted to creating landscape and architectural images, developing the picturesque style that features in his later work.
Piper experimented with printmaking from as early as 1923 when he produced four wood engravings. Piper’s prints embody his love of Britain through their depiction of its art, architecture and topography. However frequently underpinning their design, as the artist Rigby Graham has indicated, are the elements of collage, construction and assemblage that featured in his modernist work of the early 1930s.
The exhibition features over thirty pieces and includes etchings, lithographs, screen prints and original watercolours.
The Exhibition is brought to you with the generous support of Goldmark Gallery.
Abstract - Garn Fawr
Anglesey Beach
Bedford Square
Blenheim Bridge Triptych
Clytha Castle
Courthouse, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Dorchester Abbey
Figures from a Seal
Foliate Head
Gedney, Lincolnshire a tower in the Fens
High Cross, Hampshire
Île-d'Elle
Inglesham
Kelham Hall
kemp_town
Lewknor, Oxfordshire textured walls, traceried windows
Myfanwy Reclining
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
San Zobenigo
Scotney Castle, Kent
St Nicholas, Liverpool- smoke black dockland church
St Simon-de-Pelouaille, Charente
Stones and Bones XIV - Connemara
Stones and Bones XVI
Sutton Waldron
The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier
The Pebble Alcove, Stowe
The Temple of Flora
The Visitation
Warkton Northamptonshiremonument by Vangelder 1775
Willington Dovecote, Bedfordshire
Cheltenham
Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire
St Mary's, Paddington, by G. E. Street