Ralph Steadman
STEADMAN first came to fame in the 60s cartooning for Private Eye. Now he's an internationally recognised artist in the field of drawing, caricature and illustration, often vitriolic, sometimes surprisingly humane.
The whole of this edition of Arena is devoted to Steadman's work. We watch him creating, from start to finish, a colour illustration for The Cherrywood Canon, a children's anti-war story published this month. We visit his local pub where he caricatures the bemused regulars, and talk to him about his drawing techniques and his most celebrated work - including illustrations for Alice, and impressions of the Patty Hearst trial and the Watergate hearings.
The very model of a film about a contemporary artist. (SUNDAY TIMES) Producer MICHAEL Din