Faith Jaques

She maintained the organisational skills developed during this period throughout her life, accumulating a large library of reference material.

[2] After she was demobbed in December 1946, Jaques attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, until 1948, supported by an ex-service grant.

She acknowledged Edward Ardizzone as a significant influence, while demonstrating a closer visual alliance to Lynton Lamb.

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.

[7] Heinemann commissioned Faith Jaques to re-illustrate the first four of Alison Uttley’s Grey Rabbit tales, as the plates of the original illustrations by Margaret Tempest (1892-1982) had become too worn to be reprinted.