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| Illustrating Narnia - Pauline Baynes |
Pauline Baynes began her career with little
formal training. After
spending her early years in India, where her father was commissioner in
Agra, she and her elder sister came to England for their schooling.
When their father retired, their parents settled near Farnham in Surrey
and Pauline found herself looking after them during the day and trying
to illustrate at night.
Pauline attended the Slade School of Fine Art but after only a year she
volunteered to work for the Ministry of Defence, painting camouflage.
However, since her kind of attention to detail and accuracy were skills
essential for map-making, she was soon transferred to another
department to draw maps. This experience was very helpful when she
later drew maps of Narnia for C.S Lewis, and of Middle-earth for his
friend J.R.R. Tolkien.
Over the years Pauline Baynes has created many new illustrations for
use on book jackets, as well as colouring the original illustrations.
In addition, in 1989, she made a series of full-page colour paintings
for two books, one called The Land of Narnia, and the other a
beautiful, deluxe version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She
was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 1968 in recognition
of her outstanding contribution to children's illustration.
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