Monday, April 14, 2008


The famous artist and children’s book illustrator Quentin Blake is most well known for his work on Roald Dahl’s books. Blake illustrated eighteen of Dahl’s tales and rhymes, according to his website, http://www.quentinblake.com/. Blake is still drawing and clearly keeping busy. His website shows his current, past and future exhibitions. I was quiet interested to discover he was recently chosen to “curate an exhibition that will delight children of all ages” in The Petit Palais in the Champs Elysees. The website showed a few pictures of the walls of museum and they do look amazing. He also recently created art for a hospital ward, and continued by creating more drawings than he originally planned. Prints of the drawings are available and I wish I had the money to buy one because they are lovely! Currently, an exhibition called, "Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle: the Wonderful World of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake", is going on. The website described it as a showcase of some of Dahl and Blake’s well known characters and that visitors will “be given the chance to get up close to their favourite characters and discover them in new, splendiferous ways.” I wish I could go, but it’s on 30 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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