The Snake Has All the Lines (1961)

Year: 1961

Format: Book

Illustrator: Maureen Roffey (b.1936)

Client: Heinemann

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Details: Maureen Roffey illustrated this cover for "The Snake Has All The Lines", a book published in 1961.

Maureen Roffey was born in 1936. She studied at Hornsey College of Art and afterwards at the Royal College of Art.

Roffey worked as a graphic designer for a production company called Associated-Rediffusion in the 1960s and designed cardboard toys for a number of years. She collaborated with her husband Bernard Lodge to create a booklet advertising Guinness. She also created illustrations for Mary Quant’s Ginger Group, which were used on labels, merchandise and shop displays.

After 1970 Maureen Roffey concentrated on illustrating magazines and children's books. She is a successful children's book illustrator and has been working for the past 50 years with publishers such as Walker, Bloomsbury and Macmillan.