Faith Jaques

Faith Heather Jaques was born in Leicester, England, the daughter of Maurice Thompson Jaques and Gladys Millicent Jaques (nee Playford). Her brother Peter Heath Jaques (1919–2013) once represented Leicestershire in first-class cricket. As a child, Jaques was a prodigious reader and artist. She attended Wyggeston Grammar School which she left aged 15 to attend Leicester College of Art from 1941 to 1942 where she studied anatomy, perspective and the histories of architecture, furniture and costume.{{Cite web|title=Jaques, Faith Heather|url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/jaques-faith-heather|access-date=21 May 2020|website=Artist Biographies}}

Jaques joined the Women's Royal Naval Service as soon as she was old enough in order to leave home. She was posted to Oxford where she was stationed in the New Bodleian Library. Her duties included control of a filing department containing over a million photographs, holiday snaps included, of Germany and Occupied Europe, with particular attention given to pictures of coastlines and village approaches. She maintained the organisational skills developed during this period throughout her life, accumulating a large library of reference material. While in Oxford, she took some classes at Oxford School of Art under William Roberts and Bernard Meninsky, and it was then that she decided to become an illustrator. Other illustrators who influenced her were Rex Whistler and Eric Fraser.{{Cite book|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=The Telling Line|publisher=Delacorte Press|year=1989|isbn=0385300484|location=Great Britain}} After she was demobbed in December 1946, Jaques attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, until 1948, supported by an ex-service grant. She lodged in a Salvation Army Hostel for the first six months of the course.{{Cite news|last=Tucker|first=Nicholas|date=7 August 1997|title=Obituary|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-faith-jaques-1244190.html|access-date=21 May 2020}}{{Cite web|date=1997-08-07|title=Obituary: Faith Jaques|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-faith-jaques-1244190.html|access-date=2020-06-04|website=The Independent|language=en}} Among her tutors and mentors at Central were Edward Ardizzione, [https://www.alanfletcherarchive.com/alan-fletcher-pioneering-figure-who-left-his-creative-mark-generation-british-graphic-design-0 Jesse Collins], John Farleigh, Laurence Scarfe and John Minton.

From the late 1940s, she taught at Guildford School of Art (1948–53) and Hornsey College of Art (1960-68) on a part-time basis, while contributing to many magazines and producing other graphic work.

Though Jaques had illustrated a variety of material from 1950, she concentrated on illustrating children's books from the mid 1960s, working mainly in black and white. She acknowledged Edward Ardizzone as a significant influence, while demonstrating a closer visual alliance to Lynton Lamb. She illustrated the first British edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published in 1967{{Cite book|last=Treglown|first=Jeremy|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32787240|title=Roald Dahl : a biography|date=1995|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|isbn=0-15-600199-3|edition=1st Harvest|location=San Diego|oclc=32787240}}{{Cite book|last=Dahl|first=Roald|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460061027|title=Charlie and the chocolate factory|date=1967|publisher=G. Allen and Unwin|location=London|language=en|oclc=460061027}} following controversy over the depiction of the Oompa-Loompas in the US edition of the book.

In the late 1970s, Jaques illustrated some of Leon Garfield’s London Apprentice series (1976–78), before beginning to write her own children’s books. Comparatively late in her career, she began illustrating in colour including texts that she authored herself. Tilly's House (1979) - the story of a Dutch doll - was her first picture book as author and illustrator.{{Cite book|last=Jaques|first=Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4549755|title=Tilly's house|publisher=Atheneum|year=1979|isbn=0-689-50138-2|edition=1st American|location=New York|oclc=4549755}}

Heinemann commissioned Faith Jaques to re-illustrate the first four of Alison Uttley’s Grey Rabbit tales, as the plates of the original illustrations by Margaret Tempest (1892-1982) had become too worn to be reprinted.

In 1982, Uttley’s tales also provided the basis for the first of Jaques' series of cut-out picture books, Little Grey Rabbit’s House, while Tales of Little Brown Mouse appeared in 1984.

Between leaving Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1948 and the 1960s, Jaques' illustrations could be found across a wide spectrum of material:

• British Post Office Stamp and Telegram design. In 1960, Jaques was one of three British artists invited to submit ideas to mark the Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications but she declined to do [http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_P_150_06_02_009 so]. She did however present designs for other British Postage Telegram and Stamps between 1960 and 1978. Her designs were selected for the 1960 Valentine's Day Telegram, the Tercentenary of Establishment of the General Letter Office in [http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_P_150_06_02_006_01_023 1960], the Seventh Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in [http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_P_150_06_02_010_01_005 1961] and three Christmas Stamps in [https://rmspecialstamps.com/collections/christmas-1978/ 1978.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719023627/https://rmspecialstamps.com/collections/christmas-1978/ |date=19 July 2020 }}
• Illustrations for the Radio Times{{Cite web|title=Artists of Radio Times: A golden Age of British Illustration|url=https://www.chrisbeetles.com/book/99/artists-of-radio-times-a-golden-age-of-british-illustration|website=chrisbeetles.com}}
• Illustrations for BBC Radio's [https://picclick.co.uk/Faith-Jaques-SINGING-TOGETHER-1970-BBC-Radio-SCHOOLS-133068974547.html#&gid=1&pid=5 Singing Together]
• Illustrations for journals including Strand, Lilliput, World Leader, Our Time, Housewife, House and Garden, [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26013/lot/131/ Cricket]
• Film [http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/aoi/j/jacquesf/I.htm publicity]
• Miscellaneous work including Portmeiron mugs, greetings cards and menus

Jaques was an active advocate for a Public Lending Right and for the recognition of illustrator's work.{{Cite web|last=Jaques|first=Faith|title=Seven Stories The Collection|url=http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=((RelatedNameCode==%27DS/UK/1%27))|access-date=23 June 2020|website=Seven Stories}}{{Cite journal|last=Jaques|first=Faith|date=18 June 1977|title=The illustrator is also worthy of his hire|journal=The Bookseller|pages=2834–36}} and was invited to become an honorary member of the Association of Illustrators in 1984.

Jaques continued to write and illustrate following her move from London to Bath in 1987.{{Cite web|last=Jaques|first=Faith|title=Collection|url=http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=%27fj*%27)|website=Seven Stories Collection}} She died on 12 July 1997 aged 74. Jaques' extensive archives are maintained by Seven Stories.

• Drawing in Pen and Ink, (1964) {{Cite web|title=British Library|url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01007671559&indx=8&recIds=BLL01007671559&recIdxs=7&elementId=7&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=2&frbg=&rfnGrpCounter=2&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&tb=t&fctV=Jaques%2C+Faith.&fctV=books&mode=Basic&vid=BLVU1&rfnGrp=2&rfnGrp=1&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&fctN=facet_creator&fctN=facet_rtype&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=Faith%20Jacques&dstmp=1591830274366|access-date=11 June 2020|website=British Library}}{{Cite web|title=Jaques, Faith|url=http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/aoi/j/jacquesf/ff/a.htm|access-date=11 June 2020|website=Fulltable.com}}
• Tilly's House, (1979)
• Tilly's Rescue, (1980) {{Cite book|last=Jaques|first=Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13151645|title=Tilly's rescue|publisher=Heinemann|year=1980|isbn=0-434-94441-6|location=London|oclc=13151645}}
• Kidnap in Willowbank Wood (1982) {{Cite book|last=Jaques|first=Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12112312|title=Kidnap in Willowbank Wood|publisher=William Heinemann|year=1982|isbn=0-434-94442-4|location=London|oclc=12112312}}
• Our Village (1983) {{Cite book|last=Jaques|first=Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317844982|title=Our village shop : an old-fashioned model shop with its contents ready to cut out and assemble|publisher=Heinemann|others=Sawyer, Jean.|year=1983|isbn=0-434-94443-2|location=London|oclc=317844982}}
• The Christmas Party (1986) {{Cite book|last=Jacques|first=Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810635785|title=The Christmas party : a model|publisher=Orchard Books|year=1986|isbn=1-85213-002-4|location=London|oclc=810635785}}

• Nesbit, E., The Railway Children (1960)
• Kamm, Josephine, The story of Mrs. Pankhurst (1961)
• Mathieson, Eric, The true story of Jumbo the elephant (1963)
• Knight, Isobel, Rescue in the snow (1963) {{Cite book|last=Knight|first=Isobel|year=1963|title=Rescue in the snow|url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30230015|access-date=2020-05-31|publisher=University of London Press|location=London|oclc=30230015 |language=en}}
• Treece, Henry, The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War (1967) {{Cite book|last=Treece, Henry|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59167810|title=The windswept city|date=1977|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|isbn=0-241-89672-X|location=London|oclc=59167810}}
• Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1967)
• Williams, Ursula Moray, Mog, (1969) {{Cite book|last=Williams, Ursula Moray|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30300792|title=Mog|date=1969|publisher=Allen & Unwin|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-04-823089-8|location=London|oclc=30300792}}
• Dickens, Charles, The magic fishbone (1969 {{Cite book|last=Dickens, Charles|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154123|title=The magic fish-bone;|date=1969|publisher=Chatto, Boyd & Oliver|others=Jaques, Faith|isbn=0-7011-0284-5|location=London|oclc=154123}}
• History of Costume (1966–70)
• Nesbit, E., The Island of the nine whirlpools (1970)
• Williams, Ursula Moray, Johnnie Golightly and his crocodile (1970) {{Cite book|last=Williams|first=Ursula Moray|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30268211|title=Johnnie Golightly and his crocodile|date=1970|publisher=Chatto, Boyd & Oliver|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-7011-0311-6|location=London|oclc=30268211}}
• Ransome, Arthur, Old Peter's Russian Tales (1971)
• Crush, Margaret, A first look at costume (1972){{Cite book|last=Crush, Margaret|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60080768|title=A first look at costume|date=1972|publisher=F. Watts|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-85166-271-4|location=London|oclc=60080768}}
• Bowden, Nina, Carrie's War ([https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908871518 1973)]
• Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the great glass elevator (1973)
• Pearce, Philippa, What the neighbours did, and other stories (1973) {{Cite book|last=Pearce|first=Philippa|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/590082|title=What the neighbors did, and other stories|date=1973|publisher=Crowell|isbn=0-690-87932-6|edition=1st U.S.]|location=New York|oclc=590082}}
• Duggan, Maurice, Falter Tom and the water boy (1974) {{Cite book|last1=Duggan|first1=Maurice|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16286073|title=Falter Tom and the water boy|last2=Jaques|first2=Faith|date=1974|publisher=Kestrel Books with Longman Paul|isbn=978-0-7226-5453-8|location=Harmondsworth, London.|language=en|oclc=16286073}}
• Williams, Ursula Moray, Grandpapa's Folly and the woodworm-bookworm : a story (1974) {{Cite book|last=Williams, Ursula Moray|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1254317|title=Grandpapa's folly and the woodworm-bookworm : a story|date=1974|publisher=Chatto & Windus|others=Jaques, Faith|isbn=0-7011-5039-4|location=London|oclc=1254317}}
• Lang, Andrew, Red Fairy Book (1974) {{Cite book|last=Lang, Andrew|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3293380|title=Red fairy book|date=1976|publisher=Kestrel Books|others=Alderson, Brian., Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-7226-5129-5|edition=Rev.|location=Harmondsworth|oclc=3293380}}
• Harris, John, A Peck of Pepper (1974) {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2279389|title=A Peck of pepper|date=1974|publisher=Chatto and Windus|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-7011-5043-2|location=London|oclc=2279389}}
• Cresswell, Helen, Lizzie Dripping again by (1974) {{Cite book|last=Cresswell, Helen|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16308152|title=Lizzie Dripping again|date=1974|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-563-12687-6|location=London|oclc=16308152}}
• Nesbit, E., The old nursery stories (1975)
• Garfield, Leon, London Apprentice series (1976–78)
• Uttley, Allison, A Traveller in Time, Puffin, (1977)
• Treece, Henry, The windswept city (1977) {{Cite book|last=Treece|first=Henry|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59167810|title=The windswept city|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|year=1977|isbn=0-241-89672-X|location=London|oclc=59167810}}
• Avery, Gillian, Mouldy's Orphan (1978 ){{Cite book|last=Avery|first=Gillian|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4056974|title=Mouldy's orphan|publisher=Collins|others=Faith Jaques|year=1978|isbn=0-00-184512-8|location=London|oclc=4056974}}
• Ahlberg, Allan, Mr Buzz the beeman, Puffin (1981)
• Uttley, Allison, Little Grey Rabbit’s House (1982) {{Cite book|last=Uttley|first=Allison|author-link=Faith Jaques|date=1982|title=Little Grey Rabbit's House|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318001334|access-date=3 June 2020|via=WorldCat|oclc=318001334 }}
• Uttley, Allison, Tales of Little Brown Mouse (1984) {{Cite book|last=Uttley|first=Alison|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14931256|title=Tales of Little Brown Mouse|publisher=Piccolo in association with Heinemann|others=Jaques, Faith.|year=1984|isbn=0-330-29243-9|location=London|oclc=14931256}}
• Masefield, John, The Box of Delights : when the wolves were running (1984) {{Cite book|last=Masefield|first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12502369|title=The box of delights : when the wolves were running|publisher=Fontana Lions|others=Crampton, Patricia, Jaques, Faith.|year=1984|isbn=0-00-672415-9|location=[London]|oclc=12502369}}
• Our Village Shop: an old-fashioned model store with its contents ready to cut out and assemble (1984) {{Cite book|last=Jaques, Faith|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12874907|title=Our village shop : an old-fashioned model store with its contents ready to cut out and assemble|date=1984|publisher=Philomel Books|others=Sawyer, Jean.|isbn=0-399-21023-7|location=New York|oclc=12874907}}
• Hoffman, Mary,The Return of the Antelope (1985) {{Cite book|last=Hoffman, Mary|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59229323|title=The return of the antelope|date=1985|publisher=Heinemann|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-434-94201-4|location=London|oclc=59229323}}
• Thomson, Pat Good Girl Granny (1987 ){{Cite book|last=Thomson|first=Pat|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15016173|title=Good girl Granny|publisher=Gollancz|others=Jaques, Faith.|year=1987|isbn=0-575-03865-9|location=London|oclc=15016173}}
• Ahlberg, Allan, Miss Dose the doctor's daughter (1988) {{Cite book|last=Ahlberg|first=Allan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17262862|title=Miss Dose the doctor's daughter|publisher=Puffin|others=Jaques, Faith.|year=1988|isbn=0-670-81692-2|oclc=17262862}}
• Sutherland, Zena, The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (1990) {{Cite book|last=Sutherland|first=Zena|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48864073|title=The Orchard book of nursery rhymes|publisher=Orchard Books|others=Jaques, Faith|year=1990|isbn=1-85213-056-3|location=London|oclc=48864073}}
• Sutherland, Zena, The Little Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (1991) {{Cite book|last=Sutherland|first=Zena|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962414731|title=The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes|publisher=Orchard Books|others=Jaques, Faith|year=1916|isbn=978-1-4083-4234-3|location=London|oclc=962414731}}
• Dickens, Monica, The great fire (1993) {{Cite book|last=Dickens|first=Monica|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60098761|title=The great fire|date=1993|publisher=Mammoth|others=Jaques, Faith.|isbn=0-7497-1479-4|location=London|oclc=60098761}}

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• [http://www.artworkoriginals.com/JAAAAA3Q.htm Photo of Faith Jaques on artworkoriginals]
• Videotape of Lecture about Faith Jaques by Professor Brian Alderson given in 2012 at Newcastle University, UK https://research.ncl.ac.uk/alderson/talks/jaques/
• IMDB Reference https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2186544/
• Images of both accepted and declined design for British Stamps [https://www.postalmuseum.org British Stamps https://www.postalmuseum.org]
• Mike Demsey's blog on graphics and living: https://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2016/03/faith-jaques-pen-friend.html
• Obituary for Faith Jaques by Michael Goaman, The Times (69661) London, England. 13 January 2009. p. 93. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
• Chris.Beetles: [https://www.chrisbeetles.com/search?_token=vxfOOc8YUHS3LkVdfzt0U0BTGTgHDANrZXEMFtcJ&search_query=Faith+Jaques Chris Beetles Gallery]
• {{Cite book|last=Mangan|first=Lucy|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/871044357|title=Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory : the complete story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's most famous creation|publisher=Penguin Group|year=2014|isbn=978-0-14-751348-9|location=New York|pages=102|oclc=871044357}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Lawrance |first1=Sarah |title=Drawn from the Archive: hidden histories of illustration |last2=Wilson |first2=Jacqueline |date=2015 |publisher=Seven Stories Publications |isbn=978-0-9928827-0-9 |series=Seven stories |location=Newcastle upon Tyne}}

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