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Faith Jaques (1923–1997) was a British illustrator of the late twentieth century notable for her work as a children's book author, illustrator, artist, stamp designer and advocate for artists' rights over their work.


Early life

Faith Heather Jaques was born in
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, England, the daughter of Maurice Thompson Jaques and Gladys Millicent Jaques (nee Playford). Her brother Peter Heath Jaques (1919–2013) once represented Leicestershire in first-class cricket. As a child, Jaques was a prodigious reader and artist. She attended Wyggeston Grammar School which she left aged 15 to attend Leicester College of Art from 1941 to 1942 where she studied anatomy, perspective and the histories of architecture, furniture and costume.


Career


Early years

Jaques joined the
Women's Royal Naval Service The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the World War I, First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in ...
as soon as she was old enough in order to leave home. She was posted to
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where she was stationed in the New Bodleian Library. Her duties included control of a filing department containing over a million photographs, holiday snaps included, of Germany and
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, with particular attention given to pictures of coastlines and village approaches. She maintained the organisational skills developed during this period throughout her life, accumulating a large library of reference material. While in Oxford, she took some classes at Oxford School of Art under William Roberts and
Bernard Meninsky Bernard Meninsky (25 July 1891 – 12 February 1950) was a British painter of figures and landscapes in oils, watercolour and gouache, a draughtsman and a teacher.. Biography Early life and education Meninsky was born in Konotop, modern-day Ukr ...
, and it was then that she decided to become an illustrator. Other illustrators who influenced her were
Rex Whistler Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 190518 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and ...
and Eric Fraser. After she was demobbed in December 1946, Jaques attended the
Central School of Arts and Crafts The Central School of Art and Design was a art school, school of fine arts, fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School ...
, London, until 1948, supported by an ex-service grant. She lodged in a Salvation Army Hostel for the first six months of the course. Among her tutors and mentors at Central were Edward Ardizzione
Jesse Collins
John Farleigh, Laurence Scarfe and John Minton.


Teaching

From the late 1940s, she taught at
Guildford School of Art Guildford School of Art was formed in 1856 as Guildford Working Men's Institution and was one of several schools of art run by Surrey County Council. After several mergers with tertiary art institutions it became part of the University for th ...
(1948–53) and
Hornsey College of Art Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey. From 1955 to 1973, when it was me ...
(1960-68) on a part-time basis, while contributing to many magazines and producing other graphic work.


Children's books

Though Jaques had illustrated a variety of material from 1950, she concentrated on illustrating children's books from the mid 1960s, working mainly in black and white. She acknowledged Edward Ardizzone as a significant influence, while demonstrating a closer visual alliance to Lynton Lamb. She illustrated the first British edition of
Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime Flying ace, fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies ...
’s ''
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. The story was origina ...
'' published in 1967 following controversy over the depiction of the Oompa-Loompas in the US edition of the book. In the late 1970s, Jaques illustrated some of Leon Garfield’s ''London Apprentice'' series (1976–78), before beginning to write her own children’s books. Comparatively late in her career, she began illustrating in colour including texts that she authored herself. ''Tilly's House'' (1979) - the story of a Dutch doll - was her first picture book as author and illustrator. Heinemann commissioned Faith Jaques to re-illustrate the first four of
Alison Uttley Alison Jane Uttley ( Taylor; 17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976) was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for ch ...
’s ''Grey Rabbit'' tales, as the plates of the original illustrations by
Margaret Tempest Margaret Mary Tempest (1892–1982) was a British illustrator and author, best known for her illustrations of Alison Uttley's Little Grey Rabbit books. Life Margaret Tempest was born at 2 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1892. She lived most ...
(1892-1982) had become too worn to be reprinted. In 1982, Uttley’s tales also provided the basis for the first of Jaques' series of cut-out picture books, ''Little Grey Rabbit’s House'', while ''Tales of Little Brown Mouse'' appeared in 1984.


Other work

Between leaving Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1948 and the 1960s, Jaques' illustrations could be found across a wide spectrum of material: * British Post Office Stamp and Telegram design. In 1960, Jaques was one of three British artists invited to submit ideas to mark the Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications but she declined to d
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She did however present designs for other British Postage Telegram and Stamps between 1960 and 1978. Her designs were selected for the 1960 Valentine's Day Telegram, the Tercentenary of Establishment of the General Letter Office i
1960
the Seventh Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference i
1961
and three Christmas Stamps i
1978.
* Illustrations for the
Radio Times ''Radio Times'' is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in September 1923 by John Reith, then general manage ...
* Illustrations for BBC Radio'
Singing Together
* Illustrations for journals including Strand, Lilliput, World Leader, Our Time, Housewife, House and Garden
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* Fil

* Miscellaneous work including Portmeiron mugs, greetings cards and menus Jaques was an active advocate for a Public Lending Right and for the recognition of illustrator's work. and was invited to become an honorary member of the
Association of Illustrators The Association of Illustrators (AOI) is a British trade association for illustration, to advance and protect illustrators' rights. It was established in the United Kingdom in 1973. Overview The AOI promotes and encourages commercial and ethical ...
in 1984.


Personal life

Jaques continued to write and illustrate following her move from London to Bath in 1987. She died on 12 July 1997 aged 74. Jaques' extensive archives are maintained by Seven Stories.


Selected works


Writer and illustrator

* ''Drawing in Pen and Ink, (''1964) * ''Tilly's House,'' (1979) * ''Tilly's Rescue,'' (1980) * ''Kidnap in Willowbank Wood'' (1982) * ''Our Village'' (1983) * ''The Christmas Party'' (1986)


Illustrator only

* Nesbit, E., ''The Railway Children'' (1960) * Kamm, Josephine, ''The story of Mrs. Pankhurst'' (1961) * Mathieson, Eric, ''The true story of Jumbo the elephant'' (1963) * Knight, Isobel, ''Rescue in the snow (''1963) * Treece, Henry, ''The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War'' (1967) * Dahl, Roald, ''
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. The story was origina ...
'' (1967) * Williams, Ursula Moray, ''Mog,'' (1969) * Dickens, Charles, ''The magic fishbone'' (1969 * ''History of Costume'' (1966–70) * Nesbit, E., ''The Island of the nine whirlpools'' (1970) * Williams, Ursula Moray, ''Johnnie Golightly and his crocodile (''1970) * Ransome, Arthur, ''Old Peter's Russian Tales'' (1971) * Crush, Margaret, ''A first look at costume'' (1972) * Bowden, Nina, '' Carrie's War (
1973)
* Dahl, Roald, ''
Charlie and the great glass elevator ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'' is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel i ...
'' (1973) * Pearce, Philippa, ''What the neighbours did, and other stories (''1973) * Duggan, Maurice, ''Falter Tom and the water boy'' (1974) * Williams, Ursula Moray, ''Grandpapa's Folly and the woodworm-bookworm : a story'' (1974) * Lang, Andrew, ''Red Fairy Book'' (1974) * Harris, John, ''A Peck of Pepper'' (1974) * Cresswell, Helen, ''Lizzie Dripping again'' by (1974) * Nesbit, E., ''The old nursery stories'' (1975) * Garfield, Leon, ''London Apprentice series'' (1976–78) * Uttley, Allison, ''A Traveller in Time'', Puffin, (1977) * Treece, Henry, ''The windswept city'' (1977) * Avery, Gillian, ''Mouldy's Orphan'' (1978 ) * Ahlberg, Allan, ''Mr Buzz the beeman'', Puffin (1981) * Uttley, Allison, ''Little Grey Rabbit’s House'' (1982) * Uttley, Allison, ''Tales of Little Brown Mouse'' (1984) * Masefield, John, ''The Box of Delights : when the wolves were running'' (1984) * ''Our Village Shop: an old-fashioned model store with its contents ready to cut out and assemble'' (1984) * Hoffman, Mary,''The Return of the Antelope'' (1985) * Thomson, Pat ''Good Girl Granny'' (1987 ) * Ahlberg, Allan, ''Miss Dose the doctor's daughte''r (1988) * Sutherland, Zena, The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (1990) * Sutherland, Zena, ''The Little Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes'' (1991) * Dickens, Monica, ''The great fire'' (1993)


References


External links


Photo of Faith Jaques on artworkoriginals
* Videotape of Lecture about Faith Jaques by Professor Brian Alderson given in 2012 at Newcastle University, UK https://research.ncl.ac.uk/alderson/talks/jaques/ * IMDB Reference https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2186544/ * Images of both accepted and declined design for British Stamp
British Stamps https://www.postalmuseum.org
* Mike Demsey's blog on graphics and living: https://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2016/03/faith-jaques-pen-friend.html * Obituary for Faith Jaques by Michael Goaman, The Times (69661) London, England. 13 January 2009. p. 93. Retrieved 13 May 2020. * Chris.Beetles
Chris Beetles Gallery
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