Description

A landscape scene depicting the ruin of an old stone cottage in Tomen y Mur, North Wales. The ruin, reduced to a pile of stones, lies against a desolate landscape. This painting is Neo-Romantic in its expressive response to the dilapidation of the stone structure, as well as in its interest in the ruin as direct subject-matter. Many critics have compared John Piper's work with that of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Romantics in its interest in representing the expressive potential of the land.