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John Piper
, English, 1903-1992
Title
ConnemaraDate1966
MediumInk and watercolour with gouache on paper
Dimensions
37 x 54 cm
Signedlower left: 6 5 66
lower right: John Piper
Credit LinePurchased, 2018
Object numberNGI.2018.54
DescriptionJohn Piper was a painter, printmaker, stained-glass artist, set and textile designer. Throughout his life he was inspired by a profound love of the British countryside as well as its ancient churches and monuments. During World War II Piper was employed as an official War Artist. In later years, he collaborated with his good friend John Betjeman on poetry collections and on the Shell Guides. Piper had links to Ireland via Betjeman, the American critic James Johnson Sweeney, and the poet Geoffrey Taylor. He visited from the late 1930s through the 1960s, and made drawings, collages, and paintings based on his observations.This watercolour is one of a number of views of the Irish countryside that Piper made in the late 1960s. It may depict Moyrus, Co.Galway where he is known to have made other works. Here the artist has applied patches of green gouache in an almost abstract pattern, and overlaid calligraphic marks, splashes, and blotches of black ink to suggest the outlines of fields, hills, trees and bushes. It is a Romantic view of the rural landscape.
Exhibition HistoryBrook Street Gallery, London