1967 I'm for You, and You're for Me (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman.1966 The Bad Food Guide (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul.1966 Making Music (illustrator) Longman.1966 Huit Enfants et un Bebe (illustrator) Abelard-Schuman.1962 Poems by Children 1950–61 (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul.1961 The King Who Lived on Jelly (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul.1961 The General (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul, by Jane Charters.1961 Comic Alphabets: Their origin, development, nature (illustrator) Routledge & Kegan Paul ( ISBN 978-0-7100-1939-4), by Eric Partridge.it really taught you to understand what you were looking at.' His aim in illustration is to make the worlds created believable, real: 'I keep trying to make things more real, not in a literal photographic sense, but in an emotional sense, telling a story by capturing the essence of the situation, giving it some meaning.' Selected works 1960s It was a rigorous training – not just painting and drawing from life – but hours of anatomy and perspective. I think I was very lucky to have started art school so young when they actually taught Art. It's a question of creating another world, believable in its own right. Although many of his books feature luminous watercolours, it is the drawing that he sees as vital: 'It's all in the drawing and illustration. A travel scholarship took him all around the world, drawing landscapes, architecture and wildlife. Having drawn for the newspapers and for the police, drawing female suspects when Identikit only catered for men, he gained valuable drawing experience. Approach to illustration įoreman learned to respond instantly to text as an art student. He studied at Lowestoft School of Art, and later in London at the Royal College of Art, where he won a scholarship to the United States.įoreman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to literature. When he was three, the family home was hit by a German bomb, but he survived along with his mother and two older brothers. His father died a month before he was born.

He was born and grew up in Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother kept the village shop.

Ben's Box by Michael Foreman