Sabine and griffin by nick bantock biography
Sabine and griffin by nick bantock biography summary.
Nick Bantock
British artist and author
Nick Bantock (born 14 July 1949) is a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, known for his series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy.
His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States, and are known for their elaborate designs featuring faux postage stamps, handwritten documents, passports, postcards and other ephemera.
Sabine and griffin by nick bantock biography
Many of his design-intensive books were packaged by Intervisual Communications (Intervisual Books), a company created by pop-up afficionado Waldo Hunt.
Career
Bantock attended schools in the northeast suburbs of London, and later an art college in Maidstone, Kent.
He began a career as a freelance artist at the age of 23, producing 300 book covers in the ensuing 16 years. In 1988 he moved to Vancouver, and soon after to the nearby Bowen Island, where he had the idea that became the Griffin and Sabine series.[1][2]
In 1993