'The Foundling Portraits' by Quentin Blake

This display at London's Foundling Museum shows a selection of works from Quentin Blake's series Young Faces.

Young Faces, (2021), is a series of 45 artworks, worked in  Stabilo watercolour pencil on paper, which Quentin Blake gifted to the Museum. The slightly pensive faces of these children stare out of the frames but most do not meet the viewer’s eye; they are peering downwards or glancing off to one side. They are not real faces but imaginary ones created by Blake during a period of self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

This current display shows ten of the drawings for the first time.