The lives of most people in Britain, whether they realise it or not, have been touched by David Gentleman. From his many stamp designs, in which he gradually transformed the way the Queen appears, to his timeless corporate logos for companies such as British Steel and the famous Eleanor Cross murals as Charing Cross underground station, David Gentleman's art has both shaped and given voice to the changing design trends of five decades. In Artwork, he gives a fascinating insight not only into his working methods, but also into the whole process of designing as an art, and art as a job. This major collection features his most significant commissions, highlighting the extraordinary breadth of his work and including stamps and posters, wood engraving and graphics, screen-prints and his trademark watercolours.

Artwork

Arts & Photography

GENTLEMAN, David

Individual Artists

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Over seventy years of quintessential London views in one box.\nIn 1950, aged 19, David Gentleman arrived in the capital, ready to begin his life as an artist. Over the next seven decades, he would sketch, paint, and engrave his way through London, documenting the cityscape, and shaping it, too - most notably through his iconic mural in Charing Cross Underground Station.\nCombining world-famous imagery with unexpected scenes of daily life in the city, this box of London artworks is a treasure trove for all those who flock to the capital.

London Postcards

History & Criticism

Particular Books

David Gentleman's Britain

Travel

Europe

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

David Gentleman's London

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

From the Isle of Wight to the Orkneys David Gentleman's stunning pen and watercolour illustrations combine with an insightful commentary to create a matchless portrait of the British Isles today.

David Gentleman's Coastline

David William Gentleman (b. 1930) is an English artist. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving at scales ranging from the platform-length murals for Charing Cross underground station in London to postage stamps and logos. His themes include paintings of landscape and environmental posters to drawings of street life and protest placards. He has written and illustrated many books, mostly about countries and cities. Gentleman paints and draws landscapes, buildings and people, and uses drawing in his design work. Many of his watercolours have been made in London and Suffolk and around Britain, on extended travels in France, Italy and India, and during briefer spells in South Carolina, East Africa, the Pacific and Brazil. He has held many exhibitions of these works. Commissioned series of watercolours have included landscapes for Shell, several Oxford Almanacks for the Oxford University Press, and interiors of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the FCO. His drawings and watercolours have been reproduced on textiles and wallpapers, dinner plates for Wedgwood and on a Covent Garden mug for David Mellor. His architectural drawings have appeared in House &amp; Garden, The Sunday Times, New York Magazine, and on the RIBA's series of Everyday Architecture wallcharts. His most recently published watercolours were made as illustrations for In the Country, 2014. Between 1982 and 1997, Gentleman wrote and illustrated six travel books: David Gentleman's Britain, London, Coastline, Paris, India and Italy, and more recently London You're Beautiful, 2012 and In the Country, 2014.

David Gentleman's Paris

Hodder&Stoughton

First published in 1992, David Gentleman's unique pen and watercolour drawings evoke the architecture and spirit of Paris. In this book he expresses his reactions on seeing the city's glories afresh each time he visits the capital, from the historical splendours to the pavement cafes, from the Champs Elysees to couples sitting on the river banks.

Exploring the land, architecture, and people of India, David Gentleman's travels have informed this collection of watercolors and reminiscences. The result is not a romantic or nostalgic vision, but a study of a country in part patient, traditional, and unchanging, but one also renewed and transformed by its energy, inventiveness, and ingenuity.

David Gentleman's India

Asia

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Artwork

London Postcards

David Gentleman's Britain

David Gentleman's London

David Gentleman's Britain

David Gentleman's Coastline

David Gentleman's Paris

David Gentleman's Paris

David Gentleman's India

David Gentleman's India