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This is Lester

This is Lester

The loveable Lester, created by Quentin Blake, enjoyed many adventures with his friends Otto and Flap-Eared Lorna (who is never without her roller skates) both in print and on the iconic BBC TV show Jackanory in the 1970s.

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Wormy Spaghetti

Wormy Spaghetti

Roald Dahl's Mr and Mrs Twit are now playing their vile tricks on each other in a specially-tinted colour edtion, published by Puffin Books in 2010.

Original artwork from the book features in the exhibition ‘Quentin Blake: Inside Stories’, which is touring the UK until 2017.

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Monsters

Monsters

Another classic children’s book from Russell Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake: the story of John, a boy who likes to draw monsters. But they don’t stay on the page ....

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The Champion of the World

The Champion of the World

‘Danny the Champion of the World’ was one of Roald Dahl’s books which Quentin illustrated several years after the author’s death in 1990. Here, Danny’s father celebrates a record haul of pheasants from Hazell’s Wood.
This drawing was first published in ‘The Roald Dahl Treasury’ (1997) and the original artwork is included in the exhibition ‘Quentin Blake: Inside Stories’ which tours the UK until late 2017.

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The Grand High Witch

The Grand High Witch

The Grand High Witch and some of her frightful adherents, from Roald Dahl’s classic story, illustrated by Quentin Blake in 1983.

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Jack o’ th’ Green

Jack o’ th’ Green

This leafy figure is well known in Hastings, where the annual ‘Jack in the Green’ festival is held on May Day. Quentin chose him as one of the typical inhabitants of Hastings to occupy a parallel underwater world in his 2015 exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery. There were 24 different subjects in total in the exhibition, ranging from day-trippers to sunbathers, Morris Dancers to wine tasters.

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Mrs Armitage under full sail

Mrs Armitage under full sail

Mrs Armitage and Breakspear on their customised bicycle, moments before disaster strikes ...

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Exhbition wall decoration

Exhbition wall decoration

In 2005, Quentin curated Les Demoiselles des Bords de Seine, an exhibition for the newly-refurbished Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, using rarely-seen works from the Museum's reserve collection. The works were on the theme of women, introduced by his figures of cherubs and children. Unlike his work for The National Gallery in London, where Quentin’s figures were on rickety-looking scaffolding, these figures could either fly or were standing on boxes.

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Finback Whale

Finback Whale

In 2016, Quentin was commissioned by the Museum of Zoology in Cambridge to produce a series of drawings to liven up some sun blinds in their galleries, as part of a refurbishment project. ‘Finback Whale’ and the other works in the set celebrate items in the Museum’s collection.

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Griffin tapestry artwork

Griffin tapestry artwork

One of a matching pair of artworks (the second griffin faces left) produced for Downing College, Cambridge in 2015. Quentin’s watercolour drawings were recreated as large-scale pieces of woven tapestry, and hang side by side in the Grace Howard Room at the College.

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Daisy and her patchwork cloak

Daisy and her patchwork cloak

Drawn in chinagraph pencil and watercolour, this rhyming story is all about the colourful character Daisy Artichoke . She isn’t quite like other folk!
Quentin provided his own translation for the French edition of the book, titled ‘Mimi Artichaut’.

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The BFG writing his memoirs

The BFG writing his memoirs

This specially-coloured version of Quentin Blake's illustration (the original is in black & white) was used on a set of four stamps issued by the Royal Mail in 2012.

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Ordinary Life #19

Ordinary Life #19

One of a series of over 40 drawings, commissioned by The Nightingale Project in 2010-2011 for a residential unit caring for adults and young people with eating disorders. Work from the series featured in the touring exhibition Quentin Blake: As Large as Life, which toured the UK in 2012-2014.

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Sliding down an elephant

Sliding down an elephant

Children slide down bannisters and snowy hills as well as elephants in this rhyme by Quentin Blake. ‘All Join In’ is a collection of short poems intended for everyone to join in with - the louder, the better!

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Ordinary Life #42

Ordinary Life #42

One of a series of over 40 drawings, commissioned by The Nightingale Project in 2010-2011 for a residential unit caring for adults and young people with eating disorders. Work from the series featured in the touring exhibition Quentin Blake: As Large as Life, which toured the UK in 2012-2014.

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Danny and his father fly a kite

Danny and his father fly a kite

Danny the Champion of the World was one of Roald Dahl’s books which Quentin illustrated several years after the author’s death in 1990. Here, Danny and his father have made a kite which they are flying from the top of the hill behind their caravan.
This drawing was first published in ‘The Roald Dahl Treasury’ (1997).

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Diva

Diva

Barbican Director, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, commissioned Quentin in 2011-12 to produce a mural to decorate a large concrete pillar in the centre of his office. A flock of birds was the result, depicting, in bird form, the variety of life that appears in the building.

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Moments litteraires: Le Mot Juste

Moments litteraires: Le Mot Juste

French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ commissioned Quentin to produce a series of drawings on a literary theme for their supplement in September 2012. In characteristic style, Quentin chose to depict a series of birds, caught in situations recognisable to authors: like this one, who is searching for just the right phrase.

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Neonatal ward #1

Neonatal ward #1

Quentin Blake was commissioned in 2009-10 by the University Hospital in Angers to produce over 40 artworks for use throughout the new maternity unit (which opened in 2011). In 2012 he produced a further 9 works for the corridor connecting the main maternity unit with the neonatal ward.

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Maternity ward drawing #1

Maternity ward drawing #1

Commissioned by doctors at Scarborough Hospital in 2009, this series of 9 maternity drawings went on to form the basis of Quentin's much larger body of work for a new maternity unit in Angers, France. These maternity drawings featured as prints in the touring exhibition Quentin Blake: As Large as Life, which toured the UK 2012-2014.

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Mrs Armitage and Breakspear

Mrs Armitage and Breakspear

Mrs Armitage, Breakspear, and their bicycle - just beginning on the first of their advenutres together. What this bike really needs is ....

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Death and the Woodsman

Death and the Woodsman

The deluxe limited edition from 2013 (published by The Folio Society) comprised fifty tales - each with a moral - by the seventeenth century French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine. Quentin selected the fifty poems in the collection, and produced at least one accompanying illustration for each of them.

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Insects etching no. 5

Insects etching no. 5

One of a series of six etchings produced for Quentin's 2012 exhibition at Marlborough Fine Arts, London. The insects appear in 'human' guises as silhouettes against coloured backgrounds.

The etchings were produced in a limited edition of 40 by Marlborough Graphics.

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E is for Egg

E is for Egg

‘E is for Egg, in a nest in a bush’; there is one illustration for each letter in the alphabet (including ‘Z is for Zippers’) in Quentin’s trademark pen, ink and watercolour style.

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