John Piper

1903-1992. English painter, printmaker, designer of stained glass windows and writer. His work regularly focused on the British landscape as well as its churches, buildings and monuments. Trained at Richmond School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London.

From 1928-1933 he wrote as an art critic for The Listener and The Nation and was among the first to recognise such contemporaries as William Coldstream, Ivon Hitchens, Victor Passmore and Ceri Richards. By the mid-30s, he was one of the leading British abstract artists, and was an official war artist in World War II.