Piper family

To quote the art historian Frances Spalding: "In the course of their long partnership, John and Myfanwy Piper created what seems to many observers an ideal way of life, involving children, friends, ... and creativity.

[5] He also stayed in the family's holiday cottages at Garn Fawr on Strumble Head in Wales, often with the Piper children.

In 2007, the extended Piper family exhibited jointly at the Messum's gallery in Cork Street, London.

[8] His father, Charles Christmas Piper, had taken over the family bootmaking business, and was also a partner in a printing and stationery company.

[7] She studied biochemistry at University College London and later worked as a potter in the village of Marston Bigot.

[17] Sebastian Piper's paintings are abstract in style and he holds periodic exhibitions to sell his pictures, especially in Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames.

Most of Henry Piper's sculptures consist of assembled pieces of discarded metalwork and other objects, often in the form of faces[22] and figures.