ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustration of Elizabeth David for Vogue (1956, now in the National Portrait Gallery)

Illustration for Vogue

Illustration for Vogue (1949)

Illustration of Elizabeth David for Vogue (1956, now in the National Portrait Gallery)

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Vogue

"For four years I worked under contract for the magazine, and loved it. Each month there would be a conference with John Parsons and the fashion editors, where features would be allotted to photographers and artists. Sometimes I would get four pages, sometimes just a sketch for the Diary."

Dust jacket for Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Illustration for Cider with Rosie

Dust jacket for Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

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Cider with Rosie

"For some time I had been illustrating a series of poetry books for schools. Its editor was Ian Parsons, chairman of Chatto and Windus and the Hogarth Press. It was his idea that I should illustrate Laurie Lee's new book Cider with Rosie... The life he wrote of in his book, that of a boy growing up in the country, had affinities with my own childhood memories... The book succeeded beyond all expectations, some of its success rubbing off on me, with the result that I was more often referred to as an illustrator than as a painter."

Dust jacket for The Blossoming World by H. E. Bates

Dust jacket for The Vanished World by H. E. Bates

Illustration for The Blossoming World by H. E. Bates

Dust jacket for The Blossoming World by H. E. Bates

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H E Bates

"There were book illustrations, poorly paid but fun to do. Once I got a drawing for Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci mixed up with an ad for margerine, and to my delight both clients were highly delighted with their drawings, both writing to comment on the originality of my viewpoint."

Cover for Alphonse by George Ward

Illustration for Alphonse

Cover for Alphonse by George Ward

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Alphonse

John Ward illustrated this children's book written by his seventeen year old son George

Illustration for Three Prayers and a Poem by Jane Austen

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Three Prayers and a Poem by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was a regular visitor to her brother in Godmersham Park, next to Bilting. The Friends of Godmersham Park produced this book in 2006 to celebrate this connection.

Other Selected Illustrated Works

Cynon Beaton-Jones, The Adventures of So-Hi (James Barrie, 1951)

H. E. Bates, The Vanished World

H. E. Bates, The Sleepless Moon (1964)

Richard Church, The Little Kingdom: A Kentish Collection

Joyce Grenfell, George Don't Do That

Joyce Grenfell, Stately as a Galleon and Other Songs and Sketches

Patrick Dickinson, Two Into One (Geerings, 1998)

Mollie Harris, A Kind of Illustration (1974)

Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good (1973)

Ovid in Love: Ovid's Amores, trans. Guy Lee (2000)

Theodore Francis Powys, Rosie Plum and Other Stories (Chatto & Windus, 1966)

Theodore Francis Powys, The Left Leg (Chatto & Windus, 1968)

Anna Twose, The Lion of Athens (Chatto & Windus, 1976)

Ian Parsons, Poetry for Pleasure (1978)

Richard Hughes, The Wooden Shepherdess (Chatto & Windus, 1973)