Quentin Blake returns to Bankside Gallery with an eclectic mix of works produced in a variety of media. Large pen & ink portraits of imaginary subjects (2024) sit alongside fantasy visions of Dream Owls and Remembered Faces (2019) worked in watercolour marker.
Using his favourite china marker, Quentin explores everyday scenes - albeit with an imaginary twist - of Edwardian women tending their much-loved potted plants (In Praise of Potted Plants and Growing Things, 2019), strolling Ladies and their Dogs and a gentleman-like bird denouncing the Annoying Ubiquity of Youth (both 2020). At larger scale, several athletic women celebrate The Language of the Fan from Quentin’s self-published series, ‘The QB Papers’ (2019). A further element of fantasy appears in Women’s heads in stone & water (2012-13).
The collection is completed in fibre-tip with Adult & Child (2023) and a selection of emotive landscapes tinted in watercolour, from his 2017 series Scenes at Twilight. Enjoy a rare chance to see some alternative drawings from hospital works produced for maternity settings in the UK and France, in 2011-2012.
All of the artworks are original drawings signed by Quentin. They are all available for purchase, please contact sales@banksidegallery.com or call 0207 928 7521 for more information.
