EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 5 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

47 what they might look like in later life. He then asked Sanders to produced a series of paintings illustrating what personalities looked like when they were young, and what they did for a living. They featured Eugene McCarthy, Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkrummah, Len Deighton, and Dame Edith Evans. Sanders had made a series of experimental collages that helped persuade Stanley Kubrick to offer him the opportunity of recording the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He drew on the set for two days each week, working on larger paintings in his studio. Although he worked on the project for more than a year, he only has a record of twenty-four of his works. He thinks that there may be more in the Kubrick Archive. Only two of these drawings were published before Kubick’s death, and then not until 2001. It was an exciting time, and many of the illustrators started to develop their highly individual styles, which reflected the fashions, music and arts at the time. However, In common with the illustrators working in the USA, the 1970s proved to be a challenging decade for every illustrator working in Britain, trying to FACING PAGE: Homes and Garden’s art editor, Joy Hannington had been expecting a horizontal half page but didn’t complain when Sanders delivered this vertical illustration. ABOVE LEFT: His agent, Artist Partners, wanted an illustration which would appeal to the advertising industry. Sanders says, “MadMen? We lived the London equivalent, as Artist Partners’ offices were in Mayfair, the centre of the advertising industry”. ABOVE: ‘The Red Geraniums’. The first illustration Joy Hannington of Homes and Gardens commissioned from Sanders, was a stark ‘kitchen sink’ story about two old people. This was the second. © IPC Media