LINKS:
- Mervyn Peake website
- Mervyn Peake blog
- Blackwell bookshop

Sebastian Peake
Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art
13 May 08
City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

Mervyn Peake was one of the greatest artists and writers of the twentieth century. Author of Gormenghast recently rated one of the top 50 books of all time by The Times, his illustrations for Treasure Island, a novel forever associated with Bristol, are considered among the best ever produced for R L Stevenson's masterpiece.

2008 being the 40th anniversary of Peake's death, his son Sebastian Peake, co-compiler of Mervyn Peake: The Man & His Art, will be speaking about his father's life and work. He will display several recently-discovered drawings, paintings, and the designs for a stage adaptation of Gormenghast for which it was intended Benjamin Britten would write the music, and also read some of Peake’s poems. 

INTERVIEW
Please click on the audio button below to hear an interview with Sebastian Peake

Interview with Sebastian Peake (9 mins)

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