John Douglas Piper Artist & Printmaker

john studied drawing at the wimbledon school of art and then went on to pursue a ba in product and furniture design at kingston university, a field in which he subsequently worked for more than a decade. he moved from london to cambridge in 2005 and this relocation and change of pace of life heralded a return to his creative roots and to his first true passion: that of drawing. the close attention to the crafting of a line and of an object, so central to john’s creative education and work, lends itself particularly well to the highly exacting medium of dry-point etching. john moved from drawing to dry-point printing after coming to cambridge and, as he states, this is an unhurried process developed in the 15th-century and most suitable for the artist trained in drawing. john’s dry-point etchings focus on the theme of british wildlife, on the flora and fauna native to our isles, and he has a delightful and delicate touch when capturing the pose and poise of his subjects.