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EARLY WORK

a selection

THE BARNSLEY CHRONICLE

(Brian’s first commission, aged 17)

Portraits of retired miners & Mrs Crouch, 1947

Mr F. W. Bannister (Mick)

Mr F. Finley

Mr T. Graham (blind) nick name Little Tom

Mr F. Hinterbottom

Mrs Crouch

THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED OLD TESTAMENT

1968 -69

PRINCE OF THE JUNGLE

René Guillot, 1958

Raani and his horse Isaphir

The crowd shout for Raani outside the temple of Kali

Old Nag squatting on his mat beside Shaytan

The band of musicians head to the square

The boys lined up, bows ready bent, arrows pointed skywards

The great tournament and the people of Galaad

The elephant Shaytan charges forward

The panther attacks Yasin

Raani sleeping by the river

Raani, the jungle prince, looking into the eyes of the dying man

Raani returns with an antelope slung across his shoulders

The hunters

Yasin runs for his life

Sharka the tiger

HIGH SANG THE SWORD

Eileen O’Faolain, 1959

Cover

Title page

Brother Finbarr and his men in their quarry boat row up Shannon river towards Clunanauve

Fergal climbs up on the stone-mason's shoulders

Brother Patrick watched Manus, Elf and Feral replace the large flagstones

Ulf and Fergal fishing Silver trout

The Danes' arrival

Two powerful Danes slash at man or beast or anyone that came their way

The horn-headed Danes

Snorri Snake Eye steering from the stern

In high spirits the Vikings singing and playing dice

The shipmaster rushing towards the fire

Fergal and Manus dragging a stout spar from the ribs of the wreck

The cavalcade riding off eastwards in the fast-falling dusk

Mahon's mother Sabia sits close to the fire with Briget at her feet

Then quiet fell as the jugglers came on and did a juggling feat

Measuring out silk, the bargaining began between Hoskuld and Gille

Side by side they stood looking through the cobweb of ropes to the ships close together on the river

He saw the war chiefs jump on skittering, frightened horses and charge out of the gate followed by their captain

The advance guard of the Irish army

THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE

Frederick Grice, 1960

TANGARA

Nan Chauncey, 1960

THE KNIGHTS OF KING MIDAS

Paul Berna, 1961

Madame Escoffier's sooty face

Charloun, his gang and the town's people examining the burnt out shanty town

The Chef and Frisquet debating the price of the freshly caught fish

Monsieur Bodin in his stamp shop examining Coucoulin's stamp

Charloun playing with his gang on the beached boat wreck

Titan and his donkey's unexpected arrival on director Popovitch's film set

The Knights of King Midas gang looking for the lost money

Miqué crying

Angel's dirty shorts

THE TOWN ACROSS THE WATER

Madeleine Polland, 1961

MYTHS OF THE NORSEMEN

Roger Lancelyn Green, 1962

Cover

Odin, with his two tame ravens perched on his shoulders

Under the leafy shade of Yggdrasil... playing chess with golden chessmen, and at draughts with discs of gold

Clever Dvalin made the spear Gungnir, the best of all spears, as a gift for Odin

Freya feasted her eyes on the gleaming beauty of Brisingamen

"Speed forward, good steed!" cried Skirnir

Two goats, Gaptooth and Cracktooth, drew Thor's Chariot

Geirrodur

Fafnir, in the form of a terrible dragon, gloated over the gold

"What mortal draws me back by these weary ways?" asked Volva

"Slayer of Baldur, your hour has come!"

HAPPILY EVER AFTER - Poems for Young Children

Ian Serraillier, 1963

Birds

Grandad's Pipe

The Early Visitor

'Hurrah, the brush is through!' from The Early Visitor

'He mounts his bicycle, and away he goes' from The Early Visitor

Anne and the Field-Mouse

Anne and the Field-Mouse

What will you have for Breakfast?

The Hedgehog

The Swan

Andrew's Bedtime Story

The Diver

The Helicopter

North-Easter

Piano Practise

Brewster Dick

'What Happened Afterwards' from Brewster Dick

The Witch's Cat

After Ever Happily

HAVELOK THE DANE

Kevin Crossley-Holland, 1964

King Aethelwold knew he was going to die

Havelok in evil hands

Grim lands a big fish

Princess Goldborough spent the remainder of the night in solitude

Jarl Ubbe

Havelok attacked by thieves

The threshold of success

The final reckoning

The song of the minstrel

MISCELLANY ONE - THE THINGUMMYJIG

R.C. Scriven, 1964

BOOKS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

Ballad of the Frog Princess

Ballad of the Frog Princess

Cover - The Professor, Charlotte Brontë 1964

Robinson Crusoe 1961

Cover - Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift 1960