"35 Years of
making professional
Art . . . . . ."
Having
painted since the age of three, even before leaving St.
Martin's School of Art in mid 1973, Peter's already
burgeoning career took off with a "bang!!" and he spent the next 25
years creating cover Art for Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Role-Playing books, working in television on projects such as
"The Two Ronnies Christmas Show" and "The Tripods", in advertising for
Companies like Harrods, on films for Companies Like Ford and Plessy and
with occasional film posters thrown-in too, and his Art for "The Sword
and the Sorcerer" and "Alligator II" could as easily be seen at his
local cinema in his then home town of Wimbledon (of tennis fame) as
well as "all over the New York subway", to quote Group One Films.
"A minimum of 400 million people have held his art
in their hands" since 1973 by one fan's calculation and thereÕs no
way to calculate how many tv, movie, games consoles and other media
consumers have viewed it on screens, let lone held his book cover art
in their hands on every continent."
The
"Legendary"
Illustrator . . . . . ."
(Role Player magazine)
He can't remember how many copies of Fighting Fantasy,
Lone Wolf and other Role-play gamebooks carried his cover Art. Millions
certainly. Or how many authors got larger royalty cheques as a result
of his involvement. Or exactly on what date it was that he discovered
Science Fiction books with his cover Art quadrupled their sales.
Despite the accolades heaped on him by clients and fans alike, the
former mainly due to his skill at accelerating the sales of books, the
latter to do with the Art itself, "that was then, and this is
now" and his personal focus has always
simply been on "striving always to be a more skilled Artist";
that, and a desire since the age of twelve, when he made his first
handmade publication from cut up school essay books, to be "self-published". "Back
to (future) basics .
. . . . ." And
so it was, in the late 90's he closed his famous Design and Licensing
Company based in Wimbledon, Solar Wind Limited,
which had clients as far apart as Tokyo and Los Angeles and all major
geographical locations in-between, and moved from London to Shropshire
to what is officially designated "an area of outstanding natural
beauty" in the depths of England's rural countryside known as "The
Marches", on the edge of an old Roman Road not far from a cave said to
contain Merlin, still alive, walled-up by Morgana le Fay, to open a
studio literally at the foot of the Long Mynd Hills, where kestrels
circle over the wood at the rear of the studio and Sheep graze by the
hundreds, to create and direct >
Peter Andrew Jones Publishing
SCIENCE
FICTION : FANTASY : URBAN : RURAL : AVIATION : CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE
PAINTINGS : DRAWINGS : MIXED MEDIA PRINTS : BOOKS : GREETING CARDS
and invest in a "new" career that fuses the capabilities of digital
technology, traditional Renaissance Fine Art skills and innovative
craft techniques.
"Decidedly
Different" (publishing)
.
. . . . ."
(Wreaks of quality from end-to-end" - P.W., U.S.A. Collector)
On
any one day a studio conversation might centre at least as much on
Renaissance Painting techniques and Publishing Schedules as it might on
Photoshop or html syntax but whatever the topic the focus is,
exclusively, on utter quality, innovation, originality and that sheer
dash that also drives his famous Science Fiction Cover Art. His
Publishing Company's works hold their own with any giant Global
Publishing organisation but with one distinct unsurpassable difference - each and every item is utterly
hand crafted to the
highest possible level.
A truly innovative
range of uniquely presented publications
and works
involving >
Frames
: generous in scale and beautifully hand-embellished
Mounts
: inner "slip" frames crafted from handmade paper as thick as wood
Books
: handmade books with unique
covers fashioned from real paint
Greeting Cards : studio created and
extremely high quality paper
All
designed to complement those wonderful legendary paintings described by
the Authoress Tannith Lee as "the kind of Art you dream about".
"Self-exacting standards" . . .
Now
he paints rural scenes simply because he lives in the midst of such
inspiring countryside. Science Fiction remains very much "in his blood"
however and his first self-published book was "SOLAR WIND - No
known substance", the first of a number of books showcasing
his Fantastical Art, and his company now publishes both his
historically known and contemporary imaginative Fantasy works such as
his illustrated novel "Crux Millennium" with its
attendant print series, masterworks, often detailed with real Gold and
rare pigments such as lapis lazuli, an extremely rare and expensive
pigment from antiquity. He now also pursues his aviation art, which is
what he'd originally intended to do before fame as a Science Fiction
Artist dragged him off-course, and he spends equal amounts of time
between six genres with the recent additions of Urban Art ,Contemporary
Figurative works plus directing his publishing company and liaising
with a string of carefully selected stockists.
"Busy", therefore, does not even remotely come near
the description of what he is most of the time, but he enjoys his "new"
business just the same.
Click here for his full
biography and
past adventures.
Debbie-Jones
(c)1999 (updated 2008)
