HEREFORD Art Gallery offers a rare opportunity to see a diverse selection of the work of one of Britain’s most renowned 20th century artists, John Piper, in an exhibition, John Piper: Creative Partnerships, which runs until August 31.

Piper is best known for his landscape paintings and prints, often depicting churches or historic sites, as well as being remembered for his depictions of bomb damage, in particular at Coventry Cathedral during the Second World War, when he was a war artist.

It is less well known that he often collaborated with, and drew inspiration from, artists, craftspeople and friends working in many different media.

The exhibition includes more than 130 pieces exploring his ‘delegated arts’ as he called these creative collaborations. It represents the wide variety of his output including posters and magazines, wallpapers, photographs, drawings, paintings, ceramics, mosaics, stage design, stained glass cartoons, firework plans, tapestries and printed textiles.

His creative partners included John Betjeman, with whom he collaborated on the Shell Guides, Benjamin Britten, with whom he designed opera sets, and other well-known patrons included the late Queen Mother who commissioned 26 views of Windsor Castle.

Other enterprises represented in the exhibition include those with his wife Myfanwy, who was an editor, critic and librettist, the stained glass artist Patrick Reyntiens and the potter Geoffrey Eastop.

The exhibition also includes a panel about the tapestries which John Piper designed for Hereford Cathedral in 1976 and which have recently undergone conservation work and have now been returned to the cathedral.

Hereford Art Gallery and Museum is open Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm, and Saturdays 10am to 4pm.