David Gentleman is an artist, lithographer, wood engraver, illustrator and designer. His platform-length Eleanor Cross mural at Charing Cross is one of the Underground’s most striking station designs. His work includes watercolours and screenprints, books on London, Britain, Paris, Italy and India, anti-Iraq war march placards and many British postage stamps, and is represented in Tate Britain, the British Museum, the V&A and in private collections. He lives in London.