Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle (born in Cambridge in 1920), educated at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers. Then, in 1942 he was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence. He died on December 30th, 2011.