Quentin in Action

Take a look at videos of Quentin creating and discussing his artwork.

Our featured video shows Quentin creating a large-scale mural - called 'The Taxi Driver' - at Hastings Contemporary in February 2020. The mural formed part of the acclaimed exhibition 'We Live in Worrying Times' on show at the Gallery from April 2020-September 2021.

Quentin Blake: 40 Women for Downing

Quentin Blake discusses his new exhibition of work at Downing College to celebrate the 40th anniversary (in 2020) of women being admitted as students to the College.

Quentin Blake: the Hospital Drawings

A short film made by the Nightingale Project at an exhibition to celebrate Quentin Blake's works in hospitals 2006-2016

Ten Minutes of Illustration

See Quentin create an artwork from rough to finished drawing, in just 10 minutes! Filmed in 2003.

'Artists on the Beach'

Quentin discusses his summer 2014 exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. (The gallery is now known as Hastings Contemporary.)

Quentin Blake: Tell Me a Picture

Short film about Quentin's techniques and curating the exhibition of that name at the National Gallery in 2001.

Un Arbre Hospitalier

French-language video (made by AP-HP in 2008) detailing Quentin Blake's work at L'Hopital Armand Trousseau, Paris. Quentin is interviewed in the hospital and at his house in South West France.

'Lester and the Olympic Games'

'Lester and the Olympic Games' told and drawn live on camera by Quentin Blake on BBC TV 'Jackanory' in 1977.

'Tate Shots: Interview with Quentin Blake'

Quentin discusses his 2012 autobiography 'Beyond the Page' in this short film for Tate Publishing.