I create strong figurative art
and illustrations of odd and fantastic things: Warped
reality, myth and fable, future visions and imagined horrors, in a variety
of media for private collectors, games and publications; album covers,
posters and backdrops for bands and nightclubs; murals and community art,
concept designs for film and TV projects. My
original works have been exhibited and sold in London, Scunthorpe, Nottingham and Birmingham. I have
even had some training as a tattooist!
Born in the 60's, in a pleasant, dusty corner of England, the middle of
three children, I was the quiet one. When I wasn't scouring the yard and
outside loo for creepy-crawlies I was immersing myself in my comics and
toys, making weird things out of plasticine and filling my drawing books
with maps and cutaways and odd little creatures. My play world intertwined
the well-used, dusty, solid world I found myself in and the kitsch surreal
world I found in comics, books, TV, cinema and the visions induced by
the radio. I loved Dr Who, Captain Scarlet, Star
Trek ,Ace of Wands and Lost in Space. I saw
The Beast from 20000 Fathoms and fell in love with stop-motion
monsters. But as well as myths and magic, I also fell in love with the
concrete world of the sciences, of biology, astronomy and physics and the
human world of history and psychology.
My passion for intermixing the real and
the bizarre runs through all my work, as you shall see...
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Neville's Magic Junkshop
Photoshop painting from ink original, from Night Drago , a Puffin Fighting
Fantasy Gamebook written by Keith Martin (1993) |