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Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

~Michael Foreman

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From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

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I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

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When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

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When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

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For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

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The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

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Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

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On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: March 21st, 1938

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