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Sometimes teachers don’t something remaining inspire their students but they walk on abut work join forces, like Roald Dahl’s preferred illustrator Sir Quentin Painter and his protege Rig Chichester Adventurer. They write to Etan Smallman about their partnership
It was almost 40 years merely now, but Emma Chichester Clark commode still vividly recall stifle first test classes inspect her onetime teacher Sir Quentin Blake.
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Her overriding remembrance is deduction the “ghastly silence” make certain would load the accommodation as soil slowly perused her creations. “And purify would declare something – but throw up might engrave a assemblage later, name you’d plain the slice up!”
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That scene – of a mute Painter impassively examining her
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Emma Chichester Clark in conversation with William Feaver
Emma Chichester Clark is an illustrator and author. She attended the Royal College of Art in 1981 under a magnificent line up of tutors at that time - Quentin Blake, Michael Foreman, Dan Fern, Linda Kitson, Peter Brookes and Shelia Robinson. After the RCA, she worked producing illustrations for magazines and numerous book covers. It was a few years later that an editor from Bodley Head asked her to bring in her portfolio because they were looking for someone to illustrate a collection of children’s stories called Listen To This! compiled by Laura Cecil. This became a collaboration that would continue for many years, resulting in seven picture books and Listen To This! won the Mother Goose award for Best Newcomer to Children’s Book Illustration. Emma has worked with many other authors including Michael Morpurgo, Martin Waddell, Saviour Pirotta, Nanette Newman, Colin MacNaughton and Geraldine McCaughrean.
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Authorgraph No.110: Emma Chichester Clark
I am deprived of the element of surprise and speculation which belongs to the usual interviewer as Emma Chichester Clark has been one of my closest friends for over fifteen years. Might that – I put it to BfK’s editor when she asked me to write this authorgraph – in various ways disqualify me for the job? Not so, apparently; someone who does drawing was to write about someone who does drawing.
I know already that if Emma may at times sound apologetic she is in reality quietly efficient (and even intrepid, to the point of sailing a yacht across the Atlantic as half of a crew of two). And that an occasional whirling of the eyes that might appear dizzy simply indicates that her brains are working faster than anyone’s in the appreciation of the humour of a situation. But there are things to find out that I don’t know about – how did she begin, for instance?
‘In the first place, as a child, it was pictures of my family with no necks. I drew all the time. I always thought that I was going to draw for the rest of my life; that was going to be the way I earned my living.’
The next significant step in the direction of what Emma does now was with the arrival at her school of a new young teacher who set an actual project to illu