Chris Riddell Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 UK Illustrator Nomination PHOTO : JO RIDDELL PHOTO
Chris Riddell Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 UK Illustrator Nomination PHOTO : JO RIDDELL PHOTO 1 Chris Riddell Biography Chris Riddell A Critical Appreciation Chris Riddell was born in South Africa. His father Richard Platt. This book and the earlier Castle Diary Chris Riddell is highly regarded in the UK and well as young readers’ chapter books, he addresses was an Anglican clergyman and his parents were involved him in detailed historical research, which internationally as a visual commentator and an audience that is often neglected: readers active in the anti-apartheid movement. His family he deployed in typically boisterous, characterful narrator; an artist and illustrator in command of who are still young enough to enjoy illustrations returned to Britain when Chris was a year old and and humorous style. Perhaps his most demanding a range of forms and genres varying from political supporting a narrative, but also old enough to he spent his childhood moving from parish to illustration project to date followed in 2004 with satire and cartoon to picture books, graphic novels engage with more sophisticated subject matter. parish. His interest in drawing began then and was his illustrations to Martin Jenkins’ adaptation of and cross-over forms. His broad understanding of Chris Riddell’s biggest virtue, however, is not that encouraged at secondary school. He remembers, Gulliver’s Travels, a classic whose combination visual communication, coupled with his classical he satisfies the expectations of theoretical analysis, “I had a wonderfully idiosyncratic art teacher, Jack of satire and fantasy played to his strengths as drawing ability and extended frame of reference, but that he can do so whilst communicating with Johnson, a painter who’d also been a newspaper an illustrator and earned him the second Kate has earned him the respect of broad and diverse and convincingly addressing his audience.
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