EXTRACTS: llustrators issue 7 © 2014 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

61 His obsessive, compulsive, and mesmeric art is considered by Peter Richardson… ABOVE LEFT: Sammy the Dog loses his cool in ‘Miserable Great Aunt Bertha’. ABOVE: Lord in his book-lined studio. 2 SMALL IMAGES: Illustrations for ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There’. Artist’s Choice Editions published in 2009 and 2011. earlier made of the ticket in question, he showed it to the inspector as proof that he had indeed paid for his journey. Unfortunately for Lord, the man remained unimpressed and declaring; “You’re a nutter!” insisted that he purchase a replacement ticket. The ticket inspector would have doubtless been even more bemused had he realised that every train ticket Lord had ever purchased was similarly committed to the pages of his notebooks; partly spurred on by a fascination for recording the everyday minutiae of life and partly as an antidote to the worry of losing the things. A similar concern prompted him to include a detailed drawing of two house keys in an illustration he