- Published: 7 October 2025
- ISBN: 9780241692813
- Imprint: Particular Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $50.00
Lessons for Young Artists











- Published: 7 October 2025
- ISBN: 9780241692813
- Imprint: Particular Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $50.00
Lessons for Young Artists is anything but a how-to manual or didactic textbook. Instead, it’s like a visit to David Gentleman’s studio where you sit at his shoulder, watching him work, while he shares tips, wisdom, anecdotes … Finding beauty in the neglected, unnoticed moments that pass us by is a lesson that can be applied to anyone’s life, ‘Young Artist’ or not. This is diamond advice, lightly given
Jonathan Jones, Guardian
Gentleman distils more than seven packed decades into an inspiring primer for the hobbyist and art school graduate alike
Susie Mesure, Financial Times
Gentleman has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country, from more than 100 commissioned stamp designs, through the illlustrations in the astonishingly popular 1957 cookery book Plays du Jour, to a platform-length mural at Charing Cross Underground Station (passed through bya whopping 60,000 passengers a day)
The Times
It takes a special kind of person to hit their 10th decade and still see fresh beauty in the city they’ve called home for 70 years
i News
Gentleman, more than anyone else, was responsible for demonstrating the possibilities of the postage stamp, a tiny shard of visual pleasure and interest that could make art a natural accompaniment to the everyday act of communication for millions of people
Apollo
It would be tempting to describe Gentleman as a pillar of the British establishment were it not for his anti-establishment leanings … For decades he has been working steadily as a designer-illustrator in a tradition of his own making
Eye Magazine
David Gentleman is London's visual laureate
Quentin Blake
David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own
Alan Bennett