Artists & Illustrators

Richard Bawden

You grew up in an artistic family, as the son of printmaker Edward Bawden and ceramicist Charlotte Epton. Was it a natural choice to follow in their footsteps?

My parents never tried to push me into something I didn’t want to do. I had always drawn continuously, however, and started making prints when I was about 10 years old. I did a linocut of Sweeney Todd and some

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