Here are more details about my Ladybird artists exhibition, which will be taking place in Canterbury over the summer months (2018).
It will be held at The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, in the centre of Canterbury. Theere’s more information and pictures to be found on Facebook. Just search for @LadybirdArtists
Entry is free: it’s a council-run gallery. Here it is one their website:
https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/events/the-story-of-the-ladybird-artists-1940-75/
It opens on 9th June and will run until 22nd of September so will be the main annual exhibition.
What I’ll be covering
A brief intro to the background of the company but then a longer look at a number of the artists whose amazing artwork was such a big part of the success of Ladybird books, focusing on the years between 1940 and 1975 – just after the sale of the company.
I’ll be showing lots of original artwork – much from Ladybird books but also a look at the other work that these artists produced. There will, of course, be masses of books (many which you can browse through) and ephemera and some of the hundreds of quirky bits of information that I’ve picked up over the years. There will be something for all ages and activities too.
95% of the exhibition will be from my own collection, which I’ve never exhibited before. Some of the artists’ families have also kindly loaned me some lovely items, to help bring the exhibition to life.
So I really hope you can make it
How amazing – oh I really hope I can make it from Wales to see this.
That will be brilliant! We’ve worked really hard on the exhibition. And it’s a lovely gallery and a great city for a summer visit
Exhibition: ‘The Ladybird Artists – 1940 to 1975’
pity i missed this. how many childhoods have interacted with these tomes? they are very much of an era, of their time, and won’t carry much weight these days – perhaps as an aid to jog the memories of those whose childhoods interacted with such publications…. would still, even now, be worth collecting. and reading. for the nostalgic buzz if nothing else. as this would be welcomed nostalgia and hardly enforced then i am all for such an exhibition… you would have thought i would have had the wherewithal to keep the few ladybird tomes i owned. excellent.
I simply loved the artists work when I was a boy and I world read the fairy tales and they would give me such imaginative ideas like i was peeping into a reality that was so magical. I loved many of them especially the elves and the shoemaker. the artists of these books made my childhood so happy and I have been trying to buy them again so I can once again imagine these blissfully happy worlds that these stories took me to.