A Visual Diary
A Visual Diary by
Festival Artist
Gino Ballantyne
Festival Artist
Gino Ballantyne
Chris Patton John Bercow ink on paper
Frontispiece Elif Shafak charcoal on Fabriano Rosapina paper
Patrons Robert Cumming Sir Anthony Seldon
Sponsors
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Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
Buckingham Literary Festival
A Visual Diary Festival Artist Gino Ballantyne Buckingham Literary Festival www.bucklitfest.org © 2020
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Antonia Fraser charcoal on Ingres paper page 6
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Foreward The Buckingham Literary Festival began in 2016 and by 2017 had already established itself by its wide and varied programme which includes some of the best authors writing today. With a stellar line up organised for the 2020 literary festival it was with a heavy heart the team responsible for those wonderful festivals to date made the decision to cancel the 2020 festival due to Coronavirus. (Festival Director Christopher Woodhead echoes the thoughts and feelings of every member of the Festival Team) “Our festival family is incredibly saddened by [this]. Ultimately though, we’d rather plough our efforts into assuring that 2021’s festival is a show stopper, giving our authors. our audiences, our sponsors, staff, volunteers and our festival friends the space they may need this year to cope with all that this horrible situation may throw at us.” With 2021 just over the horizon we here at the literary festival have produced this catalogue of drawings to remind you of the dazzling authors who have given you a wonderful insight into their world during the last few years. “Thank you for your support, stay safe and keep in touch we look forward to seeing you in 2021” www.bucklitfest.org
Keri Davies, Timothy Bentinck and Jane Wenham-Jones pencil on paper page 7
Chris Patton ink on paper
Introduction Gino Ballantyne, Buckingham Literary Festival Artist since 2017 is an international artist. The scope of his work includes: painting, multi installations, sculpture, large performance drawings and sound composition. He exhibits nationally and internationally and has work held in public and private collections. He has been awarded and shortlisted for prizes in the UK, France and the USA. Recent exhibitions include “Take Over Times Square” New York 2014, “Exposure Awards Premier” The Louvre Museum, Paris 2015, 15th Scope Art Show, “A Meditation on Place” Miami beach, Miami 2016, “Notations”, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow 2017, “Resonance”, Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow 2017, Artbasel, “Art takes Miami” Miami 2018, Buckingham Parish Church 2019, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2018, 2019, 2020. The drawings in this book portray some of the authors and speakers at the festival between 2017 and 2019. The last author during 2019’s literary festival was Terry Waite interviewed by Sir Anthony Seldon, drawn by Ballantyne. He has since created an analogue drawing as a visual transcription of there interview which he scanned and translated into binary and subsequently completed a portrait in oils of Terry Waite which was added to Ballantyne”s series of paintings titled hostages. These weaved extensions were informed by his interest in Bigdata, sound, language, violence and the “Other” and how these effect human consciousness. Ballantyne is also currenly Artist in Residence at St Peter and Paul, Buckingham parish church where he is working on large scale paintings of the “The Crucifixion” which will be unveiled in late 2020.
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Terry Waite and Sir Anthony Seldon pencil on Ingres paper page 10
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Top: Terry Waite oil on canvas
Above: Hostages (detail) oil on canvas
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Felix Fernandez-Armesto charcoal on Ingres paper page 12
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Felix Fernandez-Armesto charcoal on Ingres paper page 13
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Frederick Forsyth and Nancy Stevens charcoal on Ingres paper and pencil on paper
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Frederick Forsyth watercolour on Ho-Sho paper page 15
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Mathew Stadlen ink and watercolour on Ho-sho paper page 16
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Elif Shafak charcoal pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper page 17
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Ben Okri pencil on paper page 18
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Victoria Hislop pencil on paper page 19
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John Bercow ink and watercolour on Ho-sho paper page 20
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Chris Patton ink and watercolour on Ho-sho paper page 21
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Peter James pencil on paper page 22
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Roger McGough pencil on paper (sketchbook) page 23
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Rebecca Fraser watercolour on CP watercolour paper page 24
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Rebecca Fraser watercolour on CP watercolour paper page 25
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Craig Brown watercolour on Ho-Sho paper page 26
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Antonia Fraser watercolour and indian ink on paper page 27
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Mathew Stadlen and Louis De Bernières charcoal on Ingres paper page 28
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Louis De Bernières charcoal on Ingres paper page 29
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Luke Jennings charcoal on Fabriano Rosapina paper page 30
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Charles Cumming charcoal on Ingres paper page 31
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Georgina Godwin charcoal on Ingres paper page 32
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Jane Wenham-Jones pencil on paper page 33
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Tom Bower ink on watercolour paper page 34
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Tom Bower ink and watercolour on HP watercolour paper page 35
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Keri Davies pencil on paper page 36
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Timothy Bentinck pencil on paper page 37
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Tim Marshall pencil and coloured pencil on paper page 38
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Tim Marshall charcoal on Ingres paper page 39
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Mathew Stadlen and Edward Stourton watercolour on CP watercolour paper
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Edward Stourton watercolour on CP watercolour paper page 41
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Sir Anthony Seldon charcoal on Ingres paper page 42
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Christopher Lee pencil on paper page 43
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Nick Hewer charcoal on Ingres paper page 44
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Jacqueline Wilson pencil on paper page 45
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Annabel Leventon charcoal on Ingres paper page 46
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Leslie Cavendish charcoal on Ingres paper page 47
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Mark Billingham and Belinda Bauer pencil and watercolour on paper page 48
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Mark Lawson watercolour on CP watercolour paper page 49
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Adrian Wooldridge charcoal on Ingres paper page 50
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Adrian Wooldridge Mathew Stadlen charcoal on Ingres paper
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Jasper Winn watercolour on rough watercolour paper page 52
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Audience
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Andrew Adonis ink and watercolour on HP watercolour paper page 54
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Andrew Adonis ink and watercolour on HP watercolour paper page 55
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Audience ink and watercolour on paper page 56
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Audience pencil on paper page 57
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Rebecca Fraser pencil on paper paper page 58
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Violet Moller pencil on paper paper page 59
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Raymond Tallis pencil on paper (sketchbook) page 60
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Sir Anthony Seldon pencil on paper (sketchbook) page 61
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Audience charcoal on ingres paper page 62
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Frederick Forsyth (top) charcoak on Ingres paper Audience (bottom) pencil on paper
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Shakespeare in the Garden audience watercolour and pencil on paper page 65
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Shakespeare in the Garden audience charcoal on Ingres paper page 66
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Shakespeare in the Garden audience charcoal on Ingres paper page 67
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Castle Theatre Shakespeare in the Garden pencil on paper
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Local Authors Hub page 75
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