Artist David Gentleman has always loved Camden but now he has fallen in love with the county of Suffolk writes Ruth Gorb

THE distinguished artist David Gentleman, who has drawn and painted some of the most beautiful sights in the world, confesses to a great affection for pigs.
In one of his new asset of Suffolk lithographs, the majestic church at Blythburgh serves only as a background to some singularly jolly pigs. Why does he (and for that matter, so many of us) feel so drawn towards them?
“They are,” he says, “so incredibly human. They’re the same colour as us – sort of pink. Their bottoms are not unlike ours. They get on well with one another – apart from occasional bouts of aggression. I see them as a reminder of a past link with other creatures.”
The pigs (and church) are one of the six specially commissioned lithographs of the county David Gentleman loves and knows so well. He is a man who likes to put down roots. Just as he has lived and around his present house in Gloucester Crescent, Camden Town, since 1956, so he has decided to stay put in his bolt hole in Suffolk.