Kensington Palace, Spring Morning Gold Silver & Bronze The annual would get passed

The annual would get passed around elderly relatives at Christmas and old book shelves in back bedrooms would be mouldering with bound volumes of unread copies

The day trippers in small craft jostling in amongst the barges at a country lock are reminiscent of many 20th century painters

celebrating the optimism and rediscovery of England and Englishness that accompanied the new Elizabethan era of the 1950s

with it’s preponderance of Ealing comedies

Described as the ‘Grandfather of British illustration’ (thank you Chris Beetles) his economy of line was said to have modernised his trade and certainly influenced the next generation of cartoonists from Frank Reynolds to David Low

Kensington Palace, Spring Morning Gold Silver & Bronze The annual would get passed