John Piper in the South Country at Wiltshire Museum

Major exhibition highlighting how John Piper (1903-92) responded to the landscape and architecture of the south country of Wiltshire and Dorset. Piper made some of his most significant paintings of subjects from this area, including Stourhead, Fonthill and Lacock, and one of his finest early collages is of the neolithic site at Avebury. The exhibition includes examples of all these, plus a number of the churches in the locality, from Inglesham to Knowlton and Britwell Salome. Piper also painted different aspects of Salisbury Plain: a view of a neolithic barrow, the land under plough in the Second World War, and the great monument of Stonehenge. Other subjects include a street corner in Lydiard Park, Cerne Abbas and several studies of the Isle of Portland.