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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 11, John Holder, ‘with apologies to Gainsborough’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 11, John Holder, ‘with apologies to Gainsborough’

John Holder was born in 1941 in Baldwell Ash, Suffolk, and studied at the Cambridge School of Art. His work has been published in books and periodicals worldwide and he has exhibited his travel drawings in London and Dubrovnik.

Poste-Freudian Therapy

Poste-Freudian Therapy

It is generally thought that Stella Gibbons was mocking Mary Webb’s Precious Bane when she wrote Cold Comfort Farm, but she was probably having a pop at all those purveyors of country hardship, sex, doom and slop, Hardy and Lawrence included. One can easily tire of the lush, dripping, thrusting, tragic, moist, fecund countryside, and long for a brisk young woman from the tough pavements of town like Flora Poste to come along and tidy things up a bit . . .

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Troublesome Ghosts

Troublesome Ghosts

Every morning, when the dog drags me out, we take the Church Walk behind the shops, through a wrought-iron gateway into the churchyard, passing the old half-timbered Guildhall. There, on a rock sticking out of a shrub border, is a bronze plaque of a woman with an odd gaze, her hair done up in a bun, against a background of distant hills. The plaque is a brand: Much Wenlock and this part of south-west Shropshire have become Mary Webb Country.

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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 10, Toni McGreachan, ‘Refreshment’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 10, Toni McGreachan, ‘Refreshment’

Toni McGreachan is a practising and exhibiting artist based in London. The image on the cover is a detail from a painting entitled Refreshment made during her residency at Tooting Bec Lido. To see further works by Toni and for contact details visit: www.toni-mcgreachan.co.uk

Diving Fox

From Slightly Foxed, Issue 10 James Nunn www.jamesnunn.co.uk

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 9, Emma McClure, ‘Chickens’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 9, Emma McClure, ‘Chickens’

Emma McClure trained as a painter at Winchester and Chelsea Schools of Art and now lives and works in London. She exhibits regularly and has had several successful one-person exhibitions at the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery. She can be contacted on: 07748 408937 or [email protected]

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 8, Sue Macartney-Snape, ‘Slightly Foxed’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 8, Sue Macartney-Snape, ‘Slightly Foxed’

Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanganyika, educated in Australia and now lives in London. She has had several sell-out exhibitions of her work and has been acclaimed as the Wodehouse of Art. Prints of her work are available from SMS Editions, tel: 01256…

Up There on a Visit

It was the custom then, in the late ’70s, and still is for all I know, for editors to saunter forth from their ivory towers and visit bookshops with the reps, experience life at the sharp end of the book trade and so on. It was called being ‘on the road’ but tended to concentrate on large centres of population easily reached from London. Nothing could disguise the jittery bonhomie of the unfortunate rep chosen for this honour, or the loathing in the eyes of the bookseller forced to undergo ordeal by young puppy on top of the usual ordeal by rep.

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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 7, Hannah Firmin, ‘Autumn’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 7, Hannah Firmin, ‘Autumn’

Since leaving the Royal College of Art Hannah has worked as a freelance illustrator and printmaker for a wide range of clients. In 2004, her cover for Alexander McCall Smith’s The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency was named ‘Book Cover of the Year’…

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 6, Ben McLaughlin, ‘Shadow Fox’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 6, Ben McLaughlin, ‘Shadow Fox’

Ben McLaughlin was born in London in 1969, studied at Central St Martin’s School of Art and has been exhibited for the past seven years by Wilson Stephens Fine Art. His work is in both private and corporate collections in…

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 5, Linda Scott, ‘Slightly Foxed’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 5, Linda Scott, ‘Slightly Foxed’

An established illustrator, Linda Scott has enjoyed working for a variety of clients since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1998. She also teaches at the London University of Arts and at Falmouth College of Arts.

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 4, Ronald Searle, ‘Foxed throughout’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 4, Ronald Searle, ‘Foxed throughout’

Reproduced by kind permission of the artist and The Sayle Literary Agency, and taken from the book Slightly Foxed – But Still Desirable: Ronald Searle’s Wicked World of Book Collecting.

Mistletoe Fox

From Slightly Foxed, Issue 4 James Nunn www.jamesnunn.co.uk

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 3, Jonny Hannah, ‘Foxed Brand Fireworks’

Born and bred in the kingdom of Fife, Jonny Hannah now works as an illustrator in Southampton, but remembers occasionally to have the odd whisky. He publishes his own limited-edition books and posters with the Cakes & Ale Press, a…

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 2, Tsugumi Ota, ‘Bathers’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 2, Tsugumi Ota, ‘Bathers’

Tsugumi Ota is a Japanese artist based in London. Her main media are stone and marble sculptures, woodcuts and drawings. Often inspired by myths, poems and classical writings, Tsugumi’s images are striking and original.

Kindred Spirits

Kindred Spirits

Do you treasure ancient paperbacks, spines gone, pages browning, brittle and crumbling, held together (or not quite) with perished elastic bands, simply because you also treasure the memories they evoke as much by their physical appearance as by their contents?

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