EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 11 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 pages PAGES in Full edition)

80 my elder brother has a talent for drawing and there is someone on my mother’s side, the Ormeshers, who was an art teacher. PR: Where did you train? MT: I trained at Folkstone Art College from 1964 to ‘67. Attending art college was transforming, I went from struggling through school because of my handicap, to fulfilling my potential in art. At that time there were various courses in graphics, fine art, fashion, painting and decorating. The course I took was Graphic Design and Illustration; we had a couple of full time tutors and freelancers who brought in the outside world. It was the most transformational three years of my life. I was sixteen when I started and left when I was nineteen, and was offered a job as a designer in a design department of an office equipment firm off Tottenham Court Road in London, based on my work at the college. I moved to Muswell Hill, North London and shared a flat with fellow art students from my old art school,— fresh out into the world of work and art and the ‘60s! PR: What were your first influences? MT:The first influence was at senior school. Occasionally we would have an afternoon when students would talk ABOVE: The cover art for Spike Milligan's 'Monty—My Part in his Victory', published 1978 by Penguin Books . ABOVE RIGHT & FACING PAGE: Labour Party Leader, Michael Foot, appearing as Mr. Punch from an illustration for an unused Conservative poster from the 1987 general election.