Sir George Martin

By

Anthony Jenkins

Following the recent death of ‘Fifth Beatle’ Sir George Martin, artist Anthony Jenkins paints his own thoughts on the man 

‘A Fine Line from Anthony Jenkins in Canada’ in Tuck Magazine:

https://tuckmagazine.com/2015/11/23/a-fine-line-from-anthony-jenkins-in-canada/

Anthony Jenkins

I was born in Toronto, Canada and spent a very happy childhood there. I enjoyed school and attended the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, graduating with a B.A. in English and Fine Art.

Between  graduation and working for a living, I did the classic backpacking student summer around Europe. And was hooked….

My life’s work has been as an illustrator, cartoonist and occasional writer at the Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper, the best in the country.

My formal training in old-school silkscreen and woodcut techniques are evident in a search for elegant, as well as functional line and a simplifying and flattening of colour.

Crazily extensive (eighty-four countries to date)  backpack travels on leaves-of-absence from a newspaper where I worked working mostly in black and white  engendered an abiding love of dramatic colour  (The African nation of Mali presents an eye-popping riot of colour in a landscape of unrelenting Saharan beige.) and a heightened fascination with my overwhelming favourite subject – the human face.

I’ve freelanced; my work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Maclean’s Magazine, The South China Morning Post, The Melbourne Age, The Straits Times in Malaysia, in the Lonely Planet line of travel guides and on the covers of many books for various publishers.

‘Traveller’s Tales – An Illustrated Journey through Australia, Asia and Africa’ which I wrote and illustrated with my travel sketches, was released by Lonely Planet in 1985.

More recently, ‘A Fine Line; The Caricatures of Anthony Jenkins’ was published in 2013.  It is available at nestlingspress.com.