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John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1903 and died in Oxfordshire in 1992. He studied at Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Piper was a War Artist in 1940. His early works were abstract but after 1938 he turned to landscape and architectural studies in the English Romantic tradition. He worked in a wide variety of fields such as book illustration, stage design and stained glass. In Harlow he was responsible for the mosaic in St Paul’s Church, also the mural, ‘An Englishman’s Home’ originally commissioned for the Festival of Britain and later given to the Harlow Art Trust. His work has been purchased by the Tate Gallery, the Contemporary Art Society and many other galleries.
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