{"id":20765,"date":"2018-11-13T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20765"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:18:46","slug":"pugin-society-illustrator-of-childrens-book-inspired-by-pugins-gothic-vision-bringing-pugin-to-a-younger-readership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20765","title":{"rendered":"Pugin Society: Illustrator of children\u2019s book inspired by Pugin\u2019s Gothic vision \u2013 \u2018Bringing Pugin to a younger readership\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>The Pugin Society reports on how James Robinson, illustrator of the new children\u2019s book, Mr Pugin<\/em>, was inspired by the architect\u2019s ideas on life and buildings and wanted to bring these to a young readership.<\/h3>\n

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Joanna Lyall,<\/em> for the Pugin Society writes:<\/p>\n

James, now 21, grew up at St Edmund\u2019s College, Ware, Hertfordshire, where Pugin designed the chapel, and his father Alan Robinson is head of boys\u2019 boarding.\u00a0 \u2018I have always liked Pugin\u2019s view of life and his vision of a Gothic England inspired me,\u2019 said James.\u00a0 \u2018I was also influenced by the illustrators, James Mayhew, Arthur Rackham and Edward Ardizzone and wanted to go for a fairly traditional style. Of course it was impossible to incorporate all of Pugin\u2019s huge output but I hope the fact every page is fully illustrated makes the book attractive.\u2019 Illustrations in the book, which follows Pugin\u2019s life story, include St Augustine\u2019s and The Grange, Pugin\u2019s family home, as well as St Marie\u2019s Grange, St Giles Cheadle, and the House of Lords.<\/p>\n

James is one of six children all home schooled by their mother, Suzanne Robinson, a former history teacher, who wrote the text for the book. When he was 18 James illustrated a book on home schooling\u2026. He was commissioned for the Pugin book, when Father Marcus Holden, former rector of St Augustine\u2019s, Ramsgate, visited St Edmund\u2019s for a conference and saw James\u2019s Christmas cards.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was very excited by the project and just dived in and did lots of research and worked on it for three months,\u2019 he said. James has been working on commissions for illustration since he was 16 and now hopes to take himself to art school in Florence on the proceeds.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0 Mr Pugin is available from the Pugin Centre, St Augustine\u2019s Ramsgate, price \u00a35.50, or \u00a39.50 p&p. To purchase, contact simon.heans@ntlworld.com, or ring 0730 531 7642<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a> and see James on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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