Luke Piper
Luke Piper is a landscape painter, producer and geographer. Son of artist and photographer Edward Piper, ceramicist Prue Piper and Grandson of Myfanwy and John Piper, Luke has always been surrounded by visual art practice. Inspired by early travels to Papua New Guinea, Africa and Australia he paints mainly outdoors working fast to capture the moment. He is interested in our ancient and modern relationship with nature through the landscape and identifying the underlying character that gives it meaning.
His first major show was held in 1992 at the CCA Galleries London, he has since gone on to exhibit widely showing works from his recent travels. In 2015 Luke staged an exhibition in a c.14th century Tithe Barn in Pilton, where he has also worked since the early 1990s as a curator for Glastonbury Festival. More recently, he exhibited work from a painting pilgrimage from Cornwall to East Anglia following the ‘Michael and Mary’ energy lines and in 2020 his Planet Paintings exhibition (also titled At war with Nature) reflected on our situation with the global environment and the Coronavirus pandemic.