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Featured Artist
Illustrator and designer of children's books who was born in Eltham, Kent(now London) the daughter of a designer who worked in the construction industry. She attended Hornsey College of Art and afterwards at the Royal College of Art where her graduation exhibition brought her to public attention. Her first paid employment was working for Rediffusion Television designing programme titles and also illustrating the company magazine 'Fusion'. She also designed clothes tags for the then-budding designer Mary Quant. Nearly six decades later they featured in a Quant retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2020.
As she began to raise her family in the mid-1960's in 1971 she turned to illustrating books the first of which was Who Killed Cock Robin?, published by Bodley Head. It was a huge success. She went on the illustrate and produce almost 100 books some of which are mentioned below. Her commission included work for Lego and PG Tips the latter being displayed on the sides of double-decker buses. Knowing no bounds Maureen Roffey also created dolls's houses and a Noah's Ark in cardboard which children could press and assemble themselves. An example of her work is in the collection of the London Transport Museum. In 1960 she married fellow designer Bernard Lodge with whom she occasionally collaborated.
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