This blog aims to explore some of my work in greater detail—works in progress (incomplete projects possibly doomed to stay that way, or the final stages in their journey to completion) plus older pieces that deserve a second airing. If you've arrived here without seeing the work on my website, please go check that out.

Thursday 28 November 2013

Doris Lessing

The novelist Doris Lessing died last week (17th November 2013). I once did a picture for the Radio Times to accompany the listing for a radio play of her story The Grass is Singing. This was so many years ago it was before I even had a computer so the hand was good old fashioned photography, printed with my own darkroom equipment, bleached and toned, then ripped and glued together before being painted over. It was in the back pages so was printed about an inch and a bit high, the original being smaller than A4.
The story concerns a white woman in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) who was killed by her black servant Moses for money.

Doris Lessing illustration - The Grass is Singing - Radio Times

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