- Published: 7 October 2025
- ISBN: 9780241692813
- Imprint: Particular Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $45.00
Lessons for Young Artists

















- Published: 7 October 2025
- ISBN: 9780241692813
- Imprint: Particular Books
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $45.00
Gentleman has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country, from more than 100 commissioned stamp designs, through the illlustrations in the astonishingly popular 1957 cookery book Plays du Jour, to a platform-length mural at Charing Cross Underground Station (passed through bya whopping 60,000 passengers a day)
The Times
It takes a special kind of person to hit their 10th decade and still see fresh beauty in the city they’ve called home for 70 years
i News
Gentleman, more than anyone else, was responsible for demonstrating the possibilities of the postage stamp, a tiny shard of visual pleasure and interest that could make art a natural accompaniment to the everyday act of communication for millions of people
Apollo
It would be tempting to describe Gentleman as a pillar of the British establishment were it not for his anti-establishment leanings … For decades he has been working steadily as a designer-illustrator in a tradition of his own making
Eye Magazine
David Gentleman is London's visual laureate
Quentin Blake
David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own
Alan Bennett