Compton Verney`s autumn exhibition showcases Britain`s best-loved illustrator
(Artdaily.org)

Sir Quentin Blake is an artist who needs little introduction. Such is his relationship with the British public that his work is as familiar as Marks & Spencer, Rolls Royce or Fox’s Glacier Mints. Instantly recognisable, quintessentially British – an undoubted national treasure. It has become something of a rite of passage that millions of us developed a more sophisticated appreciation of words and pictures through the writing of Roald Dahl, Michael Rosen and more recently, David Walliams - all of which are brilliantly and vividly illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake’s exuberant pen. This autumn visitors to Compton Verney are getting a unique opportunity to see ‘behind the pages’ with the exhibition Quentin Blake: Inside Stories (21 October – 17 December 2017) a chance to view 140 of Blake’s original drawings, storyboards and handwritten captions for his most famous characters, many of which h