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 ...

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.

John Piper was an artist who has touched our lives in many ways: through his illustrations for the Shell guides, his stained glass and tapestries, and through his contribution to post-war debates ...

John Piper was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1903. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh.Numerous key galleries and museums ...

John Piper is the most reassuringly English of 20th-century artists: a gentleman modernist, whose haunting images of blitz-damaged buildings made him a household name in the post-war era, but who ...

There are examples of John Piper’s textile designs, like Arundel (1959, issued 1960), ... when artists saw textile design as a vehicle for the democratisation of art in a post-war utopia. John Piper: ...

Piper trained at the Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art, and later at the Royal College of Art. His first major painting trip to Wales was in 1936 when he visited Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire.

A major collection of works by the artist John Piper has been bought by National Museum Wales. The paintings, which largely consist of landscapes of Snowdonia, have been purchased for about £1m.

It was John Betjeman's bicycling "my Myfanwy" ("Soap-scented fingers I long to caress"), dreaming spires-educated Myfanwy Evans, for whom Piper, almost 30, fell. They married in 1937. She was ...