EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 4 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

2 Bryn Havord looks at one of Swinging London’s foremost illustrators whose work epitomized the look of the times. ABOVE & FACING PAGE: Fashion illustrations painted for Willie Landels the editor of Harpers & Queen magazine. Michael Johnson At midnight on the 31st of December 1959, we all sang Auld Lang Syne, and said goodbye to the lingering austerity of the post Second World War period. We were suddenly in the “Swinging Sixties”; at least we were in London, which saw the dawn of a new consumerism. It wasn’t long before Mr. Harold MacMillan, the British prime minister, was telling us “You’ve never had it so good!” Woman magazine, which under the brilliant editorship of Mary Grieve, and with George (Tiny) Watts as art editor, was the world’s greatest-selling weekly magazine for women, with weekly sales of 3.5million copies. Grieve swiftly reacted to the social changes that were taking place, and skillfully