ImagineFX_Issue_148_June_2017
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This is a partly completed album artwork. On the left is an earlier Rolling Stones<br />
vinyl, utilising my painting Another Time, Another Place previously published as<br />
a poster and later as a limited edition print. It’s there so that I can keep continuity.<br />
Here’s my most recent illustration job: the first of two<br />
album cover artworks for a vinyl package featuring early<br />
US live recordings of The Rolling Stones.<br />
Thomas, our 18-year-old kitten in the kitchen<br />
– the warmest room in the house – waits for<br />
me to make my regular cups of tea.<br />
I keep a few pieces on the walls. This<br />
is the original pencil drawing of the<br />
album cover from On a Storyteller’s<br />
Night by Magnum. Over the years, the<br />
band has used 21 of my images. To<br />
date my images have appeared on<br />
over 130 record sleeves.<br />
My self-designed custom fibreglass kit – there are two other drums not shown. It<br />
must have been some time in 1984 that I decided to have it constructed. Those<br />
familiar with my work will notice that it resembles some of the drums featured in<br />
my art (Drumboogie, Encore at the End of Time, Drumtower, for example).<br />
Since 1970 all my work has been done<br />
on this old ex-government office desk<br />
that I acquired from a closing-down<br />
sale in Bristol. The drawing board is<br />
even older, to the point that I can’t<br />
remember where I got it from.<br />
The compressor is new, replacing an<br />
old faithful beast that finally gave in<br />
after 40 years of use. It was always<br />
covered in a thick layer of dust and<br />
made a sound like a nearby helicopter,<br />
but it got the job done.<br />
Photos by The Schoolhouse Studio<br />
It’s spring, and the snowdrops are<br />
everywhere in the garden. Nature<br />
inspires me. A snowdrop was behind my<br />
conceptual design for wind turbines for<br />
the green energy company Ecotricity.<br />
Sir Squeakalot (left) and Sproggle (right), two of my<br />
stop-motion models from my children’s TV series Lavender<br />
Castle with the late Gerry Anderson. They watch over my dad’s<br />
home-made model of the Flying Scotsman, which believe it or<br />
not, influenced the artwork behind it: The Heavy Metal Hero.<br />
<strong>June</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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