My Town

David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of iton the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spentobserving, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together workfrom across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolourspainted just a few months ago.

Here is London as it was, and as it istoday: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets andpeople of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, hisstudio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on theprocess of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, thisis a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking andcapturing the world.

'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett

'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusionof the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery'Guardian

'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times

'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal