London, You're Beautiful
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141990309
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

London, You're Beautiful

An Artist's Year

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18 Oct 2018
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Iconic artist and long-time Londoner David Gentleman has drawn the hidden city every day, for a year

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design.

David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners, that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141990309
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

David Gentleman

David Gentleman is an artist of extraordinary breadth. His work has included watercolours, wood engraving, book illustrations and graphics. He designed the hundred-metre long Eleanor Cross mural at Charing Cross underground station and has designed over 100 postage stamps. He has had many solo exhibitions of watercolours and his many previous publications include the highly successful David Gentleman's Britain and its companion books on London, the British coastline, Paris, India and Italy.

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Praise for London, You're Beautiful

Exquisite and original as always, David Gentleman gives us delights and surprises on every page

Claire Tomalin

So many of David Gentleman's drawings are for me familiar territory. I've lived in three of the locations he pictures and even have my hair cut in his barber's. David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own, in this book looking at some of its neglected corners. So London, You're Beautiful is a tribute which, if I can't quite endorse, it's only because beauty often brings with it exasperation. So for me (and I suspect for him) it's London, You're Beautiful -- so how about taking a bit more care of yourself?

Alan Bennett

He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration...Gentleman is an artist-designer who has worked across an exceptionally wide range of formats

Julian Bell, Guardian

Well-known for his captivating illustrations...a highly talented artist

The Lady

Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer / painters

Camden New Journal

Selected as a Guardian Literary Event of 2012

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