Penybont Ford Congregational Church

John Piper's extensive career encompassed abstract paintings, architectural drawings, stained glass windows, set designs, and color lithography. One connecting thread in Piper's diverse oeuvre was his lifelong infatuation with rural church architecture and the English landscape. He documented his many visits to remote chapels with sketches and photographs and, as an official war artist during World War II, photographed England's bombed religious buildings. In his lithographs of the 1960s and 1970s, Piper combined these solemn black and white images with bright colors, marbled papers and drawn elements.