Alive from the 3 March 1920- 30 December 2011, Ronald was a British Artist & satirical cartoonist. He has been drawing all his life starting initially at age 5 & then moving on from the age 15 to study at the Cambridge College of Arts & Technology for two years. Despite the fact that he was on track onto becoming a great artist, he knew that soon he would have to give this up for the war of which led him to enlist in the Royal Engineers. This led to an awful time for him as he was captured alongside with his cousin as prisoners of war. He was moved from Changi Prison to Kwai jungle & was forced to work on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. During this time he was infected with beri-beri & malaria causing him to loose weight to the point where he weighed under 40kg. Once the Japanese had been defeated he was rescued & returned to the UK.
Searle is best known for his cartoon St Trinian's which was publised in Lilliput in 1941 however his career was really started by his documentation of the toture of his war inprisonment.
His sketchy, ink style is brilliant it gives his illustrations a sense of darkness which I feel reflects on his days of imprisonment.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle
http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/
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