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- British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has featured in books, private collections, galleries and public spaces around the world.
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Charles Piers Mackesy OBE (born 11 December 1962) [ 1 ] is a British artist, illustrator, and the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2019).
British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has featured in books, private collections, galleries and public spaces around the world.
Dec 14, 2020 · With its message of empathy and self-care, artist Charlie Mackesy’s unusual picture book has captured a shared longing in these dark times – and won thousands of loyal fans in the process, reports Alice Vincent
- He Likes to Do Calisthenics Between Drawings
- He’S Become More Open in The Second Half of His Life
- He’S Working on An Animated Film
- He’D Like to Make A Book About The Last Year
During the interview, Joe spots some rings hanging from Charlie’s ceiling, so Charlie explains that he likes to do little bits of exercise between drawings. “I’m really bad at organised exercise… so I do it randomly when I feel like it,” he says. “When I get bored of drawing, I’ll just take two steps to the left and just hang from the rings.” He la...
While Charlie says that much of his early life was spent in emotional confusion, asking why things happened, he says as he’s aged (he’s now 59) he’s become much more focused on talking about things. “The second half of my life, I’ve just really enjoyed having conversations that are open,” he says. “By having those conversations, you can encourage o...
After being brought to two-dimensional life in a book, Charlie tells Joe that the boy and his friends are due to be given an extra dimension in an upcoming animated film. And that’s involved looking at them in a whole new way. “I’ve had to think about them a lot more and work out what they’re like from every angle, which has been interesting,” he s...
Charlie says he’d like to produce more books, “because I know the characters have more to say. They’ve definitely been through a storm this year.” He wants to make a book that tackles what the whole of humanity has been through during the pandemic: “I’d like to make something that’s quite retrospective about what we’ve been through. We need to reme...
Dec 24, 2022 · The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse will air on BBC One on 24th December and Charlie Mackesy has spoken about the influence behind his story.
Mar 18, 2023 · Best-selling artist Charlie Mackesy's image of a boy talking to a horse that came with a message about kindness, warmth and empathy led to his work becoming an online sensation.
Charlie Mackesy: the true story behind the Boy, the Mole, the Fox and me. The artist, illustrator and author didn’t find himself until his fifties — when his poignant drawings struck a chord. He tells the story behind each character and how they saved him.