The Gentleman vision: from cockney flower sellers to drug dealers in Camden ... the artist’s wonderful illustrated memoir captures change in the capital
Gentleman’s ability to make public art that nonetheless works on an intimate, human scale, was nurtured at the Royal College of Art under Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden and John Nash in the early 1950s. An early sketch of his of a City of London bombsite is as interested in the self-seeding plants in the foreground as it is in the distant medieval church and the crane that looms between them. Or consider the murals Gentleman made for Charing Cross tube station in 1978.
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