Were also influential, as was 'an abiding interest' in Victorian steel engraving. 'During (his) student days, in the late 1950s the work of Gerard Hoffnung, André François, Ronald Searle and Saul Steinberg.and, to a certain extent.the work of Paul Klee' : 20 In his recent retrospective, Drawing Upon Drawing he states that, He attended Salford School of Art, now the University of Salford in Lancashire (1956–60) and completed his formal education at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he was taught by the modernist writer and artist Mervyn Peake and the surrealist Cecil Collins, amongst others. He was the son of a baker and a ship's hairdresser. John Vernon Lord was born in 1939 in Glossop, Derbyshire. He was the chair of the Graphic Design Board of the Council for National Academic Awards 1981-84. was conferred upon him by the University of Brighton in 2000. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton 1986-99, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He was head of various departments, including the Head of the School of Design,Īt Brighton Art School, Polytechnic and University.

His book The Giant Jam Sandwich has been in print since 1972

Lord has written and illustrated several children's books, which have been published and translated into several languages. He has also illustrated classics of English literature, including the works of Lewis Carroll and James Joyce. He is widely recognized for his illustrations of various texts such as Aesop's Fables, The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear the Folio Society's Myths and Legends of the British Isles. John Vernon Lord is an illustrator, author and teacher.

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