![]() ![]() Yep, Dahl whose views on Jews have caused the Roald Dahl Museum to put an apology for them at the entrance. There are copies of Dahl paperbacks, which he illustrated, about his flat. “I’ve got a set I did at four in the morning. “I rather like the scratchy line and the ordinariness of it.” He does some of his work sitting up in bed. In recent work, he’s embraced the biro, of all things. In this show he uses a Stabilo pencil, chunky colour pencils which you can use with water, but keep the line. Where do the ideas come from? “I have no idea,” he says cheerfully. ![]() Some pictures show an older man and younger women, not much in sympathy with each other. “It’s rather fun, the freedom of it,” he says. The portraits look like scribbles, but they convey a haunting sense of character and mood. You’ll almost certainly be familiar with his work illustrating Roald Dahl – as Dahl observed, “when someone sees the BFG, they see what Quint drew” – but this show is altogether different. Is there anything to be said for old age? “There is” he says. When you meet him – he never gives interviews now but he gave one to me – he’s the same clever, funny, interested man as ever just slower on his feet and with a bit of a beard. At 90 he is still experimenting, still exploring new ways of working, still astonishingly prolific. Portraits, Playhouses and People – a collaboration with his friend Linda Kitson, an old friend - at the Bankside Gallery, quite different from his familiar work. Quentin Blake, the greatest living illustrator here or anywhere else, has a new exhibition. ![]()
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