Tag: illustration
Gwylio’r Gwylwr / Gallery Watching
The term ‘reportage’ is usually associated with an illustrative response to acts of war or seminal political happenings… Attracted to the small, the …
Read moreThe Herring Man
Stories should not die… They ought to be remembered by someone, somewhere, somehow. And with this quote, the theme and tone of this book is establishe …
Read moreThe Making – and Unmanning – of the Welsh Collier
MIners’ houses, Trealaw, Rhondda Valley by Isabel Alexander, from Miner’s Day. Miner’s Day by BL Coombes, with illustrations [‘Rhondda images’] …
Read moreThe Hare Book and The Hedgehog Book
In an essay in the current issue of New Welsh Reader [Issue 124], I confessed to my obsession with hares. And I drew on Jane Russ’ The Hare Book for i …
Read moreQuentin Blake: Inside Stories
What does an illustrator think about? The question is posed as you walk into Quentin Blake: Inside Stories, currently on display at National Museum Ca …
Read moreLlareggub: Peter Blake Illustrates Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, National Museum Cardiff
Although Peter Blake first heard Under Milk Wood on the radio in 1954 it was to be a few years before he thought to try illustrating it. Once he had, …
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