His book illustrations are known and loved the world over – remember Willy Wonka, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, Matilda ... the list goes on. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Sir Quentin Blake has been one of the most successful illustrators of children's books ever.
But now, Sir Quentin's attention is focussed on that state of the world. An exhibition of new works, titled We Live in Worrying Times, is open at the Hastings Contemporary art gallery in the south of England. It includes a large-scale mural described as his Guernica, which with its rawness and originality is unlike anything the artist has produced in his illustrious career.
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