•PRE DIGITAL

QUEEN POSTER. 1979

This is the first illustration I ever sold. I started it during the summer months of 1979 whilst still in my final year at Liverpool.

I watched Wimbledon on TV as I painted and airbrushed this piece from photographs I'd taken myself when we saw Queen live at the Empire in Liverpool the year before.

I travelled to London to meet Peter Small and Mal Burns of Communication Vectors. (what a name) and they paid me in cash - £160 for this and for a Pink Floyd poster too.

I travelled back to Liverpool with a pocket full of tenners, the promise of a printed poster and a huge, satisfied grin.

They also commissioned 2 more posters/bands for Visions of Rock (Proteus Books) and my Police and Yes posters were the first book work that I had published.

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•MAGAZINE WORK

It used to be my main ambition as an art student to have some magazine out on the shelves sporting my artwork.

I bombarded Radio Times with samples but never got the breakthrough commission from them. Though I haven't done many magazines over the years there are a few worth listing here. I've also included a few of the football programme covers I illustrated for Sheffield Wednesday, another dream come true, though I was really disappointed that they turned down my weekly 'mix n match' player portrait feature that I'd planned.

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