Robert Ingpen’s friend Michael Page, a South Australian author, who collaborated with Ingpen producing a few books together, regards him as “…one of those rare figures on the modern artistic […]
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It’s my responsibility to draw out the emotion behind the words on the page. Ann James Ann James was an art teacher before she took up children’s book illustration over
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1819.Watercolour and gouache with scraping out on paper, 30.6 x 45.5 cm.© National Galleries of Scotland. Two watercolours of exquisite beauty, by Turner
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Harry Reade (1927-1998) was a multi-faceted character. An ardent Australian communist who was a journalist, a seaman, a truck driver, kangaroo shooter, fisherman, political activist, comedian, film director, cartoonist, animation
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“There’s so much more to a book than just the reading” said Maurice Sendak. I couldn’t agree more. This line explains the basis of my, now years’ old, fascination with
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