26 November to 24 December 2016

Hayletts Gallery Oakwood House 2 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5PQ Open 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday  Tel: 01621 851669

Revisit your childhood through the illustrations, paintings, prints and sketches of some of Britain’s most loved illustrators alongside some of their own work.

Quentin Blake (AOI Patron)

Peter Firmin

Paula Rego

Chloe Cheese (AOI Patron)

Maurice Sendak

Nicola Smee

Hannah Firmin

Eric Gill

Martin Leman

Belinda Worsley

Mark Hearld

Emily Sutton

Tom Knight

Sally Patrick, director of Hayletts Gallery was inspired to curate this exhibition due to the wealth of talent in and around Maldon and Essex alone.  Especially the acclaimed illustrator, Nicola Smee who has written and illustrated over 100 children’s books. Her images are shown here.

Nicola’s titles include CLIP-CLOP, voted one of the “Top 50 picture books of the past 25 years” also FUNNY FACE and NO BED WITHOUT TED. Also featured is Belinda Worsley who has illustrated 25 TOPSY AND TIM books for Ladybird.