Screenprint on paper
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Rose and Chris Prater
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Skeebost Skye
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1976
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<p>Most of Piper’s landscapes were in southern Britain, but he worked in the whole of Britain and Ireland. He made several working trips to Scotland, including a visit to Skye. This little farm building is in ruins, but Piper strongly opposed the repair and tidying of ruined buildings. He preferred to see them collapse and return to nature, an aesthetic principle he described as ‘pleasing decay’.</p><p>Piper sketched and photographed on the spot, but made most of his drawings in his studio in the Chilterns near Henley. Here he would assemble photographs, drawings and guidebooks around him as he drew.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print screenprint
Skeebost, Skye
image: 635 × 838 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> 1976
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<span class="text7">Most of Piper’s <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> were in </span><span class="text14">southern Britain, but he worked in the whole</span><span class="text7"> of Britain and Ireland. He made several working trips      to Scotland, including a visit to Skye. This little farm building is in      ruins, but Piper strongly opposed the repair and tidying of ruined      buildings. He preferred to see them collapse and return to nature, an      aesthetic principle he described as ‘pleasing decay’. </span>
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<span class="text7">Piper sketched and photographed on the </span><span class="text15">spot, but made most of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> in his</span><span class="text7"> </span><span class="text16">studio in the Chilterns near Henley.      Here he</span><span class="text7"> would assemble photographs,      drawings and guidebooks around him as he drew. </span>
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