Norman Thelwell (3 May 1923 – 7 February 2004) was an English cartoonist well known for his humorous illustrations of ponies and horses.
[1] Born in Birkenhead, Thelwell spent the Second World War in the East Yorkshire Regiment,[2] having signed up at the age of 18 in 1941,[3] and was art editor of an army magazine in New Delhi, India.
[2][3] He became a contributor to the satirical magazine Punch, who first published his work in 1952,[3] beginning a 25-year relationship that resulted in more than 1,500 cartoons, of which 60 were used as front covers.
For the last quarter of a century of his life he lived in the Test Valley at Timsbury, near Romsey, gradually restoring a farm house and landscaping the grounds which gave rise in 1978 to his first factual book, A Plank Bridge by a Pool,[5] which detailed the first two lakes he dug there.
An exhibition of Thelwell's drawings and cartoons was scheduled to be held at the Nature in Art gallery in Gloucester, England, from 30 July to 1 September 2019.