I can't stop looking at the watercolours of David Gentleman. He trained at the RCA under Edward Bawden and Paul Nash, and went on to make some very British pictures. Weirdly, I feel as though I live within his London, even though his iconic renderings of the city are from the early '80s. We bought a copy of David Gentleman's London (1985) from the used bookshop in Camden (where I believe he still lives), and then took it back onto Regent's Canal. We found the exact spot behind King's Cross Station from which he drew the canal. We were taking photos for our own canal illustration project, and we kept running into a man (no, I don't think it was him) sketching the landscape in his pad. Wanting to share Gentleman's image of the canal here, I did a Google image search for david gentleman regent's canal. I couldn't find the drawing I was looking for, but bizarrely came upon one of my own photographs, which I took of Jenny and Jamie on the canal and posted to this blog on March 23, 2008.
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