John Piper, Entrance to Fonthill, 1940 architecture playing for the MCC on

playing for the MCC on occasion

This brooch has been inspired by an area of countryside known as 'The Rhubarb Triangle' between Wakefield

which is famous for producing early-forced rhubarb

was born in Bradford and studied part-time at Bradford Art School

established itself as a major patron of contemporary art

John Piper, Entrance to Fonthill, 1940 architecture playing for the MCC onIn the 1930s, Piper became the secretary of the Seven and Five Society, a group of abstract artists, which included Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson. By the end of the decade, however, he had abandoned strict abstraction in favour of a more romantic portrayal of buildings and places. This work shows the ruins of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, which in 1796 William Beckford commissioned as his personal residence. It took five hundred