Charles Keeping

“Charles Keeping on artnet”

“Extract from Elidor by Alan Garner, including illustrations by Keeping (PDF document)”

“Frankenstein illustrations by Charles Keeping”

“Two lithographs by Charles Keeping”

“The Keeping Gallery (Official site)”

“His formidable originality within the picture-book convention may not have been altogether apparent to Keeping himself, which is both a strength and a weakness: the strength that he could communicate with unrivalled emotional intensity — but possibly only with one child in twenty; the concomitant weakness is that there was not a lot he could do to broaden this minority appeal and ensure that his books remained in print over longer periods. ~ Douglas Martin in Charles Keeping: an illustrator's life (1993) he is a good auther”

“I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.”