Robert Ingpen — Australian Artist born on October 13, 1936,

Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986... (wikipedia)

A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.
You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.
My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.
1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.