Robert Tavener

[1] After school, he take an office job and then in 1940 he was called up and joined the Royal Artillery during World War II.

His work was bought by the American Express, BBC, Chase Manhattan Bank, the General Post Office, the Greater London Council, London Transport, Marks & Spencer, McDonald's, Prudential Insurance, Sainsbury's, Shell, Whitbread, and Yale University.

He also exhibited at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Barbican Centre in London, and London Weekend Television Centre at South Bank, as well as many other exhibitions sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South East Arts Council.

His illustrations appeared in publications published by Hamish Hamilton, Longmans, Methuen, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, etc.

[4] His works are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Government Art Collection,[5] and the British Council.