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Wessex Guild of Bookbinders
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Wessex Guild of Bookbinders

Sue Durrant of The Wessex Guild of Bookbinders got in touch with me at The Lear Society and I am having several volumes rebound, I thought it would be interesting to see what Keith Holdaway has produced for The Owl and The Pussycat. Keith Holdaway: ‘The book is covered in black Morocco leather with on-lays of … Continue reading »

Moment to Moment – Exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
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Moment to Moment – Exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

UPCOMING: 09.09.2022–13.11.2022 Ikon’s exhibition is the first solely devoted to Lear’s sketches and landscape drawings from across the entire span of his career. This show examines the artist’s fascination with the creative process and is especially concerned with how his work came into being – through experimental methods of composition, successive drafts, doodlings and written marginalia. … Continue reading »

The Quangle Wangle’s Back!
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The Quangle Wangle’s Back!

The Quangle Wangle’s Back! A great new rhyming picture book, illustrated in the style of Edward Lear, containing his original classic nonsense poem ‘The Quangle Wangle’s hat”. Author Rob Hann’s updated sequel “The Quangle Wangle’s Back! and a brief biography of the great man to entertain, educate and inform children and adults alike. Order from … Continue reading »

The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear
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The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear

Free public lecture Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other … Continue reading »