John Piper’s (1903-1992) great contribution to 20th-century British art, whether he was painting the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral or rugged Welsh hills, was his ability to evoke a sense of place.

How John Piper and other artists changed the fabric of post-war Britain. As Britain emerged from post-war gloom, bold textiles by respected artists brought optimism – and art – into the home ...

Works by the British 20th century artist John Piper depicting some of Snowdonia's most breathtaking landscapes have gone on show at the National Museum Wales, Cardiff. Surrey-born Piper is noted ...

John Piper was a highly original artist, famous for what John Betjeman called his 'seeing eye' a visionary painter whose work echoes with the poetry of Blake and the paintings of Samuel Palmer. He had ...

Before the war, Piper was also involved in the Recording Britain project launched by Kenneth Clark, who in 1931 had been appointed keeper of Fine Art at the Ashmolean.

Opening his post one morning, in April 1940, John Piper found a set of postcards of Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire. They came with a letter from Sir Osbert Sitwell. The previous year, while writing a ...

One of Piper’s Romney Marsh paintings, Ivychurch from 1947, was bought by its current owner after its first exhibition. And, like many of the show’s rarities, it had not been seen since.