John Piper is regarded as one of the leading and most inventive British artists of the twentieth century. He was a painter, printmaker as well as designing stained glass windows and opera and theatre sets – most notably sets for the operas of Benjamin Britten. He was fascinated by landscape –especially churches and monuments and is often described as a Neo-Romanticist.
As an artist Piper consistently explored printmaking as a medium for experimentation and development. From his early wood engravings of the 1920s through aquatints of the 1930s, lithographs in the 1940s and 50s, Piper embraced the opportunities of screen-printing from the 1960s onwards.